Lawsuit claims hackers accessed billions of records, including social security numbers, by breaching background check company. 2.9 billion people may have had social security numbers, other financial data compromised What it means for you National public data confirmed a data breach leaked names, addresses, and social security numbers, without saying how many people were affected. 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. Background check service national public data confirms that hackers breached its systems after threat actors leaked a stolen database with millions of social security numbers and other sensitive.
A version of this article appears in print on aug 16, 2024, section b, page 5 of the new york edition with the headline What to know about the latest social security number breach. The company whose data breach potentially exposed every american's social security number to identity thieves finally has acknowledged the data theft — and said hackers obtained even more. Over 270 million americans may have had their social security number leaked on the dark web The latest breach involved national public data, which performs background checks.
OPEN
