The identity theft business is flourishing. Thieves half way through the globe are making peoples lives wretched as they rob them of their bank accounts and run up credit bills. Now a state legislator is irate that the California secretary of state’s website has been distributing people’s social security numbers. It seems really hard to gobble up that this valued info remained accessible for three years ahead of it comes to anyone notice. The website has since closed down in anticipation of extra notice.
Assemblyman Dave Jones was not able to gobble down that the treasure trove of Social Security numbers detected by him on the California Secretary of State website. He made purchase of twenty public records known as Uniform Commercial Code filings. Fourteen depicted sufficient info to open a credit card account under another person’s name.
Assm. Dave Jones, (D) Sacramento was quoted as saying,
The state has literally been selling on the internet, an identity theft starter kit. It has sold social security numbers for a mere $6 dollars each to any member of the public with an Internet connection and a credit card.
UCC filings are elective forms banks file with the state as a record of what have been put up by the businesses as collateral to protect loans. By law the Secretary of State is required to allow them, and the agency has provide them with online since 2004. Security firm holder Victor Torres is aghast with the state’s negligence.
