Security News Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers

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Almost 2.7 billion records of personal information for people in the United States were leaked on a hacking forum, exposing names, social security numbers, all known physical addresses, and possible aliases.

The data allegedly comes from National Public Data, a company that collects and sells access to personal data for use in background checks, to obtain criminal records, and for private investigators.

National Public Data is believed to scrape this information from public sources to compile individual user profiles for people in the US and other countries.

In April, a threat actor known as USDoD claimed to be selling 2.9 billion records containing the personal data of people in the US, UK, and Canada that was stolen from National Public Data.

At the time, the threat actor attempted to sell the data for $3.5 million and claimed it contained records for every person in the three countries.

Since then, various threat actors have released partial copies of the data, with each leak sharing a different number of records and, in some cases, different data.

On August 6th, a threat actor known as "Fenice" leaked the most complete version of the stolen National Public Data data for free on the Breached hacking forum.

If you live in the US, this data breach has likely leaked some of your personal information.

Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers

Almost 2.7 billion records of personal information for people in the United States were leaked on a hacking forum, exposing names, social security numbers, all known physical addresses, and possible aliases.

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