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The weirdest ‘3 billion people’ data breach ever

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National Public Data, a company that collects personal data to resell and process background checks, is the target of a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it is the source of a massive data leak that includes information like Social Security numbers and more on reportedly “3 billion people,” according to Bloomberg Law.

As reported by BleepingComputer, the alleged stolen database was offered for sale on the dark web in April by a hacker group known as USDoD for $3.5 million. It advertised the haul as 2.9 billion rows of data originating from National Public Data (NPD) — a reported DBA name of Jerico Pictures, Inc. NPD has not commented publicly on the alleged leak or responded to questions.

BleepingComputer reports multiple sources…

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