[2969] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Can you say "fraud"? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Myers)
Tue Sep 17 22:02:34 1996
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 17:38:40 -0600
From: Tim Myers <TIM_MYERS@novell.com>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, auntyem@umich.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
For factual information on the subject of the P-TRAK file as told by
LEXIS-NEXIS, see:
http://www.lexis-nexis.com/lncc/about/ptrak.html
Here are a couple of salient excerpts:
"LEXIS-NEXIS is aware of the sensitivities regarding the potential
misuse of information. While business competitors of
LEXIS-NEXIS have for some time made Social Security numbers available
to users of their services, and continue to do so,
LEXIS-NEXIS discontinued the display of Social Security numbers in
the P-TRAK file as of June 11, 1996, eleven days after
the product was introduced."
"There has been much erroneous information distributed on the
Internet regarding the data displayed in the P-TRAK file. The
displayed record may, but not always, include the name of the
individual, the individual's maiden and assumed names, current
as well as up to two previous addresses, month and year of birth and
telephone number. That is the only information
displayed in the P-TRAK file."
No fraud. No scam. Just spam.
Tim
