National Public Data confirmed a data breach leaked names, addresses, and Social Security numbers without saying how many people were affected.
National Public Data , a company that resells collected personal data for background checks, has confirmed that a data breach leaked names, Social Security numbers, physical addresses, and more. As reported by Bleeping Computer, dark web forum posters have advertised and shared supposedly stolen data from a breach of the company’s systems for months without a statement or response from NPD.
> The information that was suspected of being breached contained name, email address, phone number, social security number, and mailing address. The massive leak reportedly included 2.9 billion rows of data for a still-unknown number of people, and analysis of files posted to hacking forums by Have I Been Pwned operator Troy Hunt showed inconsistencies in how the data is linked to specific people.
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