Thursday, 25 January 2007

TrustedID Unveils Identity Theft Search Service

A new company has unveiled a softeare called StolenID Search that claims it will allow monitoring of personal data trafficked by online criminals. The service is said to allow database search of more than two million credit card and Social Security numbers found on the Internet, the company said.

"This is an opportunity for any consumer to find out whether or not their credit card number or Social Security number has been compromised," said Scott Mitic, TrustedID's chief executive. "In many cases, absent this service, there is no way for consumers to find out if their data has been compromised until it is too late."

He said, "This is probably the only case where I would counsel someone to enter a Social Security number into a Web form."