Hackers Release 2.7 Billion Social Security Records: Names, Social Security Numbers, All Known Physical Addresses, Possible Aliases
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Via: Bleeping Computer:
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.
