Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of all Americans. Here's what to know.
Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of all Americans. Here's what to know.
Lawsuit claims hackers gained access to "billions" of Social Security numbers by breaching background check company.
A new lawsuit is claiming hackers have gained access to the personal information of "billions of individuals," including their Social Security numbers, current and past addresses and the names of siblings and parents — personal data that could allow fraudsters to infiltrate financial accounts or take out loans in their names.
The allegation arose in a lawsuit filed earlier this month by Christopher Hofmann, a California resident who claims his identity theft protection service alerted him that his personal information had been leaked to the dark web by the "nationalpublicdata.com" breach. The lawsuit was earlier reported by Bloomberg Law.
The breach allegedly occurred around April 2024, with a hacker group called USDoD exfiltrating the unencrypted personal information of billions of individuals from a company called National Public Data (NPD), a background check company, according to the lawsuit. Earlier this month, a hacker leaked a version of the stolen NPD data for free on a hacking forum, tech site Bleeping Computer reported.
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All my credit reports are frozen because of the Equifax hack. Already went through all that years ago.
They unfreeze. I had to refreeze everything. Bullshit that I have to manage someone else's data they stole from me.
They only unfreeze when you allow. Mine are still all frozen.
Is that a recent change? I froze mine a few years back and went in to check a few days ago and had to do it all over again. I don't remember unfreezing it.
I have no idea. Mine have been frozen for years.