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Zillow stalking: The new national pastime
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Confession time: I Zillow people. All the time.
Someone casually mentions they just bought a house in Aspen? I’m on it. I’m already hunched over my keyboard like a Nancy Drew reboot.
New neighbor moves in with a Mercedes-Benz and suspiciously good patio furniture? You better believe I’m typing that address into Zillow before their moving truck finishes unloading.
Zillow knows if they’re legit or just really good at faking it for the ’gram.
🏠 Putting the real in real estate
You probably already use Zillow to dream-shop for your next home. But here’s the real power move: using it to fact-check people’s financial lives.
Millions of people are doing the same (paywall link). Zillow isn’t just some real estate listing site anymore, it’s a national pastime.
In just the first quarter of 2025, Zillow clocked a mind-blowing 2.4 billion visits. That’s not a typo. 227 million unique visitors show up every month. We’re all snooping, and the data is just sitting there waiting to be explored.
📍 Zestimate is close
When you plug in an address at Zillow, the first thing you see is the Zestimate. That’s Zillow’s home value estimate. It’s calculated from public records, recent sales, tax data, local MLS listings, updates from homeowners and spidey senses.
Zillow says it’s accurate within 2% of sale prices for homes currently on the market and within 7% for off-market homes. I know, it’ll likely be too low for your home and too high if you’re buying.
You’ll also find the price history (what they paid and when), estimated rent, tax assessments, square footage and even neighborhood details. It’s like a financial X-ray.
I wasted 36 hours trying to do it myself
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So many of the calls, emails, messages and DMs I get are about privacy and security. I can’t remember the last time I had a full day where no one asked me some version of “How do I get all this info about me off the internet?”
👨💼 AI coworkers are here: Bank of New York Mellon is now using “digital workers” alongside staff. They have company logins and handle tasks like coding and payment instruction validation on their own, then report to managers for approval. Next up? Giving them email addresses and Teams access to chat with colleagues.
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Getting weird Ring emails? You’re not alone. People are receiving legit Ring account sign-up messages they never asked for, and some of the usernames include racist slurs. It looks like hackers got hold of a bunch of stolen email addresses. If one lands in your inbox, don’t click anything. Just delete it.
🚨 Health data breach alert: Yale New Haven Health is dealing with the biggest health data breach of 2025 (so far). Over 5.5 million patients’ personal info, like names, addresses, SSNs and medical record numbers, is floating around the dark web. Watch for unexpected explanation-of-benefit letters in the mail.
🚨 Bank of America lost your data … literally: Nope, it wasn’t a cyberattack. This time, savings bond documents went missing in transit, and they had everything. Names, addresses, account numbers, SSNs and more — the full “steal my identity” starter pack. No word yet on how many people are affected, but the bank says it’ll notify you. PSA: Freeze your credit.
📦 Remember the iPhone porch pirates? It was a major crime ring (paywall link). Hackers built software to scrape FedEx tracking numbers, then bribed AT&T employees to leak delivery addresses and order details for thousands of phones. Once the package showed up, a runner would grab it. Wild.
Every Tesla owner doxed: Hackers created a website (now taken down) that shows a map of Tesla owners’ names, addresses, phone numbers and emails in the U.S. Why? They’re protesting Elon Musk. The site says it doesn’t endorse or condemn vandalism, but the cursor symbol is literally a Molotov cocktail. If you want your info removed, you have to prove you sold your car.
💸 Imagine winning the lotto: I bet you have. A Hillsboro, Missouri, couple thought the magical moment was real when someone told them they’d won $17 million. All they had to do was pay taxes upfront. They mailed over $800,000 in cash and gift cards to random addresses until their daughter figured out what was going on. They’re not getting that money back.
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