Are you worried that your Social Security or credit card number might be stolen? Would you like to be sure that nobody but you could use your data? A new web site apparently represents the solution you are looking for.

The homepage of StolenIDsearch.com  offers a “free, fast and secure search” to understand if US users’ personal information is safe. But there’s a problem: in order to check whether or not data were stolen, people should enter credit card or social security number into a search box, which is very similar to those of other Searching Engines.

The company  says not to worry about that and created a specific section where it is widely explained why StolenID search is so safe. The company claims:

1-  “We don’t keep any of the personal information you enter into our search box!”

2- “Our search is anonymous and secure: we never ask you who you are and our site is built using the highest levels of security available on the Internet. “

3- “Your credit card number or social security number alone has little value. These numbers can only be used to commit fraud when they are attached to an address, name, date of birth, expiration date, CVV2, etc. We never know any of this information; therefore, searching for a number with StolenID Search carries little risk of harming you, even in the worst case scenario. “

4- “The information that powers StolenID Search is found online, by looking in places where fraudsters typically trade or store this kind of information. All information behind StolenID search is publicly available, but not in places where you, or even search engines such as Yahoo and Google, would look. “

5- “If StolenID Search finds your information, it is likely that information was compromised through a phising site, a computer virus or spyware program that lives on your computer. “

Then they also  added that  “As an additional way to keep you safe, we will also monitor any of your credit card numbers or social security number for free, every day, for a year. We’ll immediately alert you if StolenID Search every turns up a match with your information.”

…Interesting statement: so credit cards and Social Security number are monitored for a whole year, aren’t them?

 The research will be accomplished through more than 2,387,623 compromised numbers that were filed up -as the company declared- by “looking in places where fraudsters typically trade or store this kind of information. All information behind StolenID search is publicly available, but not in places where search engines such as Yahoo and Google would look”

. ..even more interesting: why not simply point out these lists to authorities? 

The reason why the company is providing such service for free is to promote their ID-theft services, available for about $ 8 a month.

StolenID search home page

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