National Public Data Breach: Only 134 Million Unique Emails Leaked and Company Acknowledges Incident
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On August 6, 2.7 billion records from National Public Data, including Social Security numbers, were leaked on a dark web forum.
  • floofloofEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    claimed to have access to the personal data of 2.9 billion people from the U.S., U.K., and Canada

    How does that work, when the total population of those countries is less than 0.5 billion?

    • EndOfLine@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      As individuals will each have multiple records associated with them, one for each of their previous home addresses, the breach does not expose information about 2.7 billion different people. Furthermore, according to BleepingComputer, some impacted individuals have confirmed that the SSN associated with their info in the data dump is not correct.