A data dump that contains 2.7 billion records of personal information for people living in the US, including their Social Security Numbers, have recently been leaked online. The data dump’s contents were linked to National Public Data, a company that scrapes information from non-public sources and sells it for background checks. Now, the company has confirmed that it did have “a data security incident” wherein people’s names, emails, addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers and mailing addresses had been stolen.
National Public Data’s wording in its Security Incident report is a bit a vague and convoluted,
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