Website making Irish phone number and address available

nullObjects · 20-07-2021 9:31am #1

Hi,

Raising awareness of another tool you might need to protect yourself against, that seems to contain leaked address and phone numbers, might be of use to people in the security space to be aware of it.

https://www.locatefamily.com/index.html

My full address and an old phone number are in there and I can see some of my neighbours numbers in there too and they appear correct.

If you spot your details in there it might make it easier for someone to know the number of a device you use for 2 factor auth or a street address that might be used to confirm identity for online banking etc

The takedown policy on the site seems to require you to give them an email address, which is a little bit sketchy in itself. Just highlighting it as there appears to be a bunch of details of Irish addresses / numbers in there, it may have came from a recent leak.

nullObjects · 20-07-2021 9:34am

Meant to post an example:

https://www.locatefamily.com/Street-Lists/Ireland/index-200.html

Could be scraped very easily by those robocallers or whatever as well

blackbox · 20-07-2021 9:39am

Isn't this just the information that was available in old phone books?

nullObjects · 20-07-2021 10:21am

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117635852#Comment_117635852

As in it's just a directory of mobile numbers whereas the old phonebook was landlines?

Yeah I guess that's a good comparison, think you could unlist your number from the phone book if you wanted though

Maybe it's just me but I'm not a fan of having all the info presented like that for scraping

L1011 · 20-07-2021 10:36am

The phone book contained mobile numbers in the mid 90s but this is clearly newer than that.

There's a chance its from one of the private credit reference agencies used for things like mobile contracts and hire purchase in shops but its a very random selection of coverage.