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Originally Posted by Bill14564
I've always avoided sites like the above. A good way for someone to get my PII would be to take advantage of fear after a publicized breach to convince me to give it to them. "Worried your SSN might have been exposed? Fill in your full name and birth date then hit Submit."
The site above might be totally legitimate but personally, I would not provide that information.
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That is generally a good and conservative plan.
This site only asks for a state where you have lived and the YEAR of your birth. For an identification to be unique, it would need name, city and state of birth, and the full birthdate. Here it is only asking for enough information to find possible matches, which are listed. You don't identify any of them as being yours.
FWIW. Mine was exposed, but not using my state of birth, only a state in which I previously lived. Three of the four people whose names I tried showed up.