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Rudy Giuliani recently did an ad for Home Title Lock
@z3dster noted here that a doc Giuliani says is a legal title to a home in CA is actually a vehicle title:
https://twitter.com/z3dster/status/1292839634486153217?s=20
Bill O'Reilly and Dana Loesch have also been spokespeople for this company, so I looked at it
@z3dster noted here that a doc Giuliani says is a legal title to a home in CA is actually a vehicle title:
https://twitter.com/z3dster/status/1292839634486153217?s=20
Bill O'Reilly and Dana Loesch have also been spokespeople for this company, so I looked at it
Title Lock Corporation, which Giuliani recently plugged in an August 2020 video, was incorporated by Harish K. Chopra in 2014
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/C3733156
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/C3733156
Title Lock is described in this 2016 press release as a service that protects owners from title fraud by monitoring a database of 5.5 billion assets for title insurance companies nationwide
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160510005531/en/Title-Lock-Delivers-First-of-its-Kind-Property-Fraud-Monitoring
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160510005531/en/Title-Lock-Delivers-First-of-its-Kind-Property-Fraud-Monitoring
The president of Title Lock Corp, Harish Chopra, was president of a company called Data Tree Corporation, which was acquired by First American Financial Corp in 1998 for $40-50 million, assumption of $8 mil debt, and Chopra to stay on as president
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-04-fi-56388-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-04-fi-56388-story.html
In May 2019 @briankrebs broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp (which acquired Chopra's business in '98) had exposed approx 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to 2003 https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/ny-charges-first-american-financial-for-massive-data-leak/
This past Thursday New York's Dept of Financial Services filed their first enforcement action under NYDFS cybersecurity regulations against First American Title Insurance with six violations related to not maintaining adequate controls on customer info https://www.natlawreview.com/article/new-york-s-department-financial-services-files-first-enforcement-action-under-new
There’s no indication that Harish Chopra who sold his company Data Tree to First American in 1998 had any connection to the data breach dating back to 2003
But it’s interesting that Chopra’s new Title Lock business appears to profit by protecting owners from this type of breach
But it’s interesting that Chopra’s new Title Lock business appears to profit by protecting owners from this type of breach
The Title Lock website posted a @WIRED story on the breach that says “you'd think large organizations would have at least fixed the most basic and obviously damaging types of data mishandling”
They don’t add that Chopra made millions from First American https://www.hometitlelock.com/news/885-million-first-american-data-exposed
They don’t add that Chopra made millions from First American https://www.hometitlelock.com/news/885-million-first-american-data-exposed
It's not clear if Giuliani, Bill O’Reilly, Dana Loesch and other are paid, get a % of profits, or volunteer?
A 2018 article notes ex-FBI agent Art Pfizenmayer is an advisor to Title Lock Corp - in an unpaid position but has a minority stake in the company https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/economy/sd-fi-title-lock-20180925-story.html
A 2018 article notes ex-FBI agent Art Pfizenmayer is an advisor to Title Lock Corp - in an unpaid position but has a minority stake in the company https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/economy/sd-fi-title-lock-20180925-story.html
This Aug 2020 article about Home Title Lock cites a real estate attorney who says title theft is “not a thing…It’s a marketing ploy to sell this insurance that really isn’t insurance.” It’s a monitoring service - that can be done by anyone for no cost https://www.legalexaminer.news/2020/08/title-theft-is-not-the-problem-despite-ad-claims/
Story about Giuliani 
touting a title fraud detection service reminds me of this
The day after the election Nov 9, 2016 Rick Gates resigned from board of ID Watchdog, a consumer identity theft protection company - which was sold to Equifax in 2017 https://twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/967129207074689025?s=20
touting a title fraud detection service reminds me of thisThe day after the election Nov 9, 2016 Rick Gates resigned from board of ID Watchdog, a consumer identity theft protection company - which was sold to Equifax in 2017 https://twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/967129207074689025?s=20
Here's "security expert" Giuliani in an ad for a different credit agency promoting a "dark web monitoring service" for Experian https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/1278351488306368513?s=20
