[2978] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Lexis-Nexis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Tegethoff)
Wed Sep 18 13:36:39 1996
From: Jon Tegethoff <jet@cypher-sage.com>
To: "'www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:26:26 -0500
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
They changed their policy yesterday!!!! Try again and Listen to their new automatic response!
Jon
PS. Anonymous remailer!??! If you can't say something with your name attached, you probably should not be saying it!
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From: anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com[SMTP:anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 1996 11:18 PM
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
"'www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Bull shit! I just called yesterday to remove my entry from the database and they asked my name and ssn also my address.
They gave me a hard time for not giving my ssn.
At 06:02 PM 9/17/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Lexis-Nexis only needs your name and address to remove your entry from the database.
>Fax to 513.865.1930.
>
>I hope they really do it.
>
>
>> Your name, social security number, current address, previous addresses,
>> mother's maiden name, birth date and other personal information
>> are now available to anyone with a credit card through a new Lexis database
>> called P-Trax. As I am sure you are aware, this information
>> could be used to commit credit card fraud or otherwise allow someone else to
>> use your identity.
