The following report is by Engadget:
Several months after a hacking group claimed to be selling nearly 3 billion records stolen from a prominent data broker, much of the information appears to have been leaked on a forum. According to Bleeping Computer, the data dump includes 2.7 billion records of personal info for people in the US, such as names, Social Security Numbers, potential aliases and all physical addresses they are known to have lived at.
The data, which is unencrypted, is believed to have been obtained from a broker called National Public Data. It’s said that the business assembles profiles for individuals by scraping information from public sources and then sells the data for the likes of background checks and looking up criminal records. (A proposed class-action suit was filed against National Public Data over the breach earlier this month.)
In April, hacking collective USDoD attempted to sell 2.9 billion records it claimed was stolen from the company and included personal data on everyone in the US, UK and Canada. The group was looking for $3.5 million for the whole 4TB database, but since then chunks of the data have been leaked by various entities.
Previous leaks included phone numbers and email addresses, but those reportedly weren’t included in the latest and most comprehensive dump. As such, you won’t be able to check whether your information has been included in this particular leak by punching your email address into Have I Been Pwned?
The data includes multiple records for many people, with one for each address they are known to have lived at. The dump comprises two text files that amount to a total of 277GB. It’s not really possible for any independent body to confirm that the data includes records for every person in the US, but as Bleeping Computer points out, the breach is likely to include information on anyone who is living in the country.
The publication states that several people confirmed the information that the dump has on them and their family members (including some dead relatives) is accurate, but in other cases some SSNs were associated with the wrong individuals. Bleeping Computer posits that the information may have been stolen from an old backup as it doesn’t include the current home address for the people whose details its reporters checked against the data.
Read the rest of the report here.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Boy, don’t you just love all this digital stuff? What could ever go wrong?
Florida Senator Rick Scott released a statement demanding that Biden and Harris address the issue.
While we learn more about this breach, the Biden-Harris administration must detail what is being done to hold the contractor that was holding this data, National Public Data, accountable for its failure to protect against this hack. The American people also deserve to know what is being done to recover this data, and how the administration is going to protect them and ensure that a security breach of this magnitude never happens again.
It is absolutely critical that threats such as this hack are dealt with swiftly and not allowed to become yet another source of concern and anxiety for hardworking American families.
Scott said
Oh, ‘they’ will have a solution for it alright: it’s called digital IDs. As more of these hacks, scams, cyberattacks, grid-down scenarios play out, the calls for more biometric authentication and digital IDs will be pushed as the “solution.”
Be sure to monitor all your various accounts for any funny business now that this data is out there.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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God please protect us, we need you Lord. Forgive us for our sins and struggles, Lord. We need your forgiveness and mercy every day otherwise we’ll die.
Amen.
Hey Jacob,
Just for a giggle, did you check out my recent email?
I suspect this could be a warning and or judgement from the Lord on Americans, a warning not to place so much trust in the digital landscape and a judgement if a lot of people end up having a lot of trouble over this.
As it is I rarely have more than an extra twenty or so in the bank, I buy practically all of my groceries (save fresh fruits) at the start of the month, and my bills all come in and are paid by the seventh these days. Also, any money I tend to save up is in the form of cash which I keep at home. None the less I’ll certainly keep an eye out on things, just to be on the safe side.
MORE ENDLESS “RED FLAG” RICK SCOTT BEATING HIS CHEST ABOUT WHAT HE IS GOING TO DO. BELIEVE ME, HE WILL DO SQUAT. MET THIS SANCTIMONIOUS NARCISSIST ONCE. HE LOOKED DOWN HIS NOSE AT ME LIKE I WAS A BLADE OF GRASS. I ALSO MET HIS WIFE. SHE IS VERY NICE BUT SHE IS A FOLLOWER AND COMPLETELY CONTROLLED BY MR. BIG SHOT WHO TOOK THE 5TH AMENDMENT DOZENS OF TIME WHEN THE FEDS DEPOSED HIM AS CEO OF HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA. HE/HIS COMPANY HCA, BOTH, EMBEZZLED ROUGHLY $1.3 BILLION FROM MEDICARE, THUS THE MULTI 5TH AMENDMENT CALLS DURING HIS DEPOSITION. GUILTY AS IT GETS RICK. I JUST VOTED AGAINST HIM IN THE FLORIDA PRIMARY. WITH RICK AS WITH MOST OF THESE DIRTBALLS, ITS ALL ABOUT HIM, HIM, HIM. BELIEVE NOTHING HE SAYS. THERE IS MORE BUT THIS IS TOO LONG ALREADY
Oh I don’t trust him either. I just happened to see by chance that he made a statement. It’s a clown show as usual. It’s election season so he needs some extra votes I guess.
Wouldn’t be surprised if during or after the “Selection”, then behold a “Leak” info, and then everyone would know who did vote for who, adding more to the division in the land.
You can look that stuff up publicly right now. You have to jump through a few hoops sometimes but I can be found in many states.
Understood, I thought about that since “D0m1nion” is spreading in places that never had those machines, even in my area in the last few years. And the Information is possibly centralized in that company. And behold “The Water Faucet is open”, with everyone’s stuff and who they voted for. People definitely need to stay way from casting their “Choices” like that “New York City boy”.
Proverbs 22:3 “A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.”
Jacob did you say “you” can be found in other states, as in your data or is that just a typo?
Hi, Jacob,
I got a letter from a company I had never heard of telling me that my health insurance had been hacked. A couple months ago I got a similar letter from AT&T, whose hack was reported in the MSM. BOTH letters recommended that I sign up for “free” credit monitoring for a year. Oh, yeah, I want to give the all my account numbers so they can tie it in to the digital ID and cryptocurrency. I’m also hearing of nanotechnology in the jab that can track us. They are almost there with the Mark of the Beast. People won’t be able to buy or sell without it, as we all know, but unbelievers are blind to all that has been prophesied coming true right now.