I thought this might be a good place to start asking, since so many work with applications that generate, validate and process account numbers, customer ID's and numbers for other identification purposes.

There are known to be web sites where ID thiefs trade Social Security Numbers and other personal information.  So I decided to GOOGLE my own SSN to see if maybe it would show up on a web site somewere.  And it did.  The only thing is, it's a Japanese web site so I have to have someone translate it for me so I can find out what it is.  I am concerned that, even if it appears to be a legit site, it could be an ID theft site disuiguised as something else.  I'm sure it would just be at IDTHIEFSRUS.COM

The URL that GOOGLE returns is http://post.baidu.com/f?kz=######### (where the #'s are replaced by my SSN)

so kz is a parameter being passed to the page and it contains my SSN as a value.

Is this something I need to be concerned about?  Or is it not that unusual for numbers used for other purposes to just happen to work out to be U.S. SSNs?

Thanks.

Jim Mc Coy

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