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2.7B record personal info database leaked

2024-08-13 23:15:19.083986+02 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

If you live in the US, UK, or Canada, your name, social security number, and known addresses are probably public now: Bleeping Computer: Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers

While BleepingComputer can't confirm if this leak contains the data for every person in the US, numerous people have confirmed to us that it included their and family members' legitimate information, including those who are deceased.

Better yet, it looks like the data isn't all accurate, which will probably lead to even more nightmare scenarios.

The culpable party appears to be a company called "National Public Data" which does background checks and such...

Via.

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#Comment Re: 2.7B record personal info database leaked made: 2024-08-16 17:07:58.794492+02 by: Dan Lyke

Krebs on Security weighs in.

#Comment Re: 2.7B record personal info database leaked made: 2024-08-19 21:31:37.294183+02 by: Dan Lyke

And Krebs: National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords.

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