In addition, much of the information leaked may have already been available elsewhere, he said. A class action lawsuit has brought attention to an alleged hack of a data broker and a dataset that contains personal information, including social security numbers. Lawsuit claims hackers accessed billions of records, including social security numbers, by breaching background check company. Hackers claimed to have stolen more than 2 billion records containing sensitive information including social security numbers, with some data reportedly leaked online. The hacking group usdod claims that they’ve leaked 2.7 billion personal information records, including social security numbers, full names, and home addresses from a data broker called national public data (npd). A viral claim spread rapidly this week that the social security numbers of every american were leaked by hackers, but some experts aren't convinced.
Not to alarm you, but your social security number is already leaked ‘the basic information of most adults in the united states, and in many other parts of the world, is already widely available.
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