Site Leaking Unlisted Phone Number Addresses

A site that allows consumers to compare prices for digital phone, internet and TV services has been leaking private address information belonging to people with unlisted phone numbers. The site DigitalLanding.com, which is owned by Acceller, Inc., initially said it was not doing anything wrong and that the information it provided was all publicly available, despite the fact that addresses connected to unlisted numbers are not intended to be public by customers who pay a fee to protect that information or, presumably, by the phone companies that offer unlisted numbers to their customers. But the privacy advocate who discovered the data leak says the fact that DigitalLanding had the information in the first place — the company says it obtained the data from a "vendor" — raises questions about how little protection phone companies provide for customers who request unlisted numbers and addresses. But the site is also returning addresses for unlisted phone numbers, information that shouldn’t be made public.