Lawsuit claims hackers accessed billions of records, including social security numbers, by breaching background check company. The move “potentially violated multiple federal statutes” and could cause a “catastrophic impact,” the whistleblower warned, according to the new york times. Harvard and penn also hit
What victims should do now. The hacking group usdod claimed it had stolen personal records, including social security info, of 2.9 billion people from national public data. Two cybersecurity firms launch separate websites that can tell you if your personal information, including social security number, was exposed in the national public data breach.
It’s back, and this time with a search function National public data suffered an alleged breach in 2024 against a data base that, it turned out, carried 272 million unique social security numbers (ssns.) granted, that there are limits to the safety of using. The information breached may have included social security numbers, names, email addresses, phone numbers and mailing addresses, national public data states on its website.
