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DataBreach.com Emerges As Alternative To HaveIBeenPwned
Thursday November 7, 2024. 12:30 PM , from Slashdot
Atlas Privacy has been offering its paid services to customers, such as police officers and celebrities, to protect bad actors from learning their addresses or phone numbers. In doing so, the company has also amassed over 17.5 billion records from the numerous stolen databases circulating on the internet, including in cybercriminal forums. As a public service, Atlas is now using its growing repository of stolen records to create a breach notification site, free of charge. DataBreach.com builds off Atlas's effort in August to host a site notifying users whether their Social Security number and other personal information were leaked in the National Public Data hack. Importantly, Atlas designed DataBreach.com to prevent it from storing or collecting any sensitive user information typed into the site. Instead, the site will fetch a hash from Atlas' servers, or a fingerprint of the user's personal information -- whether it be an email address, name, or SSN -- and compare it to whatever the user is searching for. 'The comparison will be done locally,' meaning it'll occur on the user's PC or phone, rather than Atlas's internet server, de Saint Meloir said. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/07/0620237/databreachcom-emerges-as-alternative-to-haveibeenpwne...
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