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Comment by wxw | Hacker News Reader

Wow, surprised this isn't blowing up more. Leaking form 1040s is egregious, let alone getting them indexed by Google...

I want to believe that it's people keeping mum until it's fixed so that the leaked PII isn't spread more widely, minimize the risk of bad actors scraping it all.

Once the leak is plugged, I would hope that Fiverr gets absolutely raked over the coals, this is egregious.

I wouldn’t be surprised if someone wrote a script to pull all the sensitive PII and it’s already on the dark net hacking forums for identity thieves. Freeze your credit at all bureaus if you ever used this site.

> Freeze your credit at all bureaus if you ever used this site.

People should always have their credit frozen no matter what. It's free and only takes a few minutes to unfreeze when you need to apply for credit

Yes it's a little bit inconvenient but so is suddenly having a car, insurance, and several iPhones in your name when somebody steals your identity...

My Experian score once took a substantial hit, dropping from ~800 to ~700 or something like that. Didn’t change elsewhere. I applied for the report and realized a quite significant debt appeared on my report, and it wasn’t even in my name! It was under someone else’s name that bore zero similarity to mine, or anyone in my family. Reported to Experian and it got fixed after a week or two. Zero explanation for how it happened. These credit reporting agencies are a joke.

That's more of the fault of whichever institution gave the loan

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