Every American’s Social Security has now been exposed according to a hack report that claims a group stole 2.7 billion personal records.
The hack group called USDoD claims to have stolen a whopping 2.7 billion records of personal information from Americans, including Social Security numbers and physical addresses, several news sources are now reporting.
According to Fox 10, the hacking group offered to sell the stolen records, which included personal data for everyone in the US, UK, and Canada, to a forum of hackers.
The data was stolen from National Public Data, a platform that offers personal information to employers, private investigators, staffing agencies and others doing background checks, said the outlet.
According to Engadget, previous leaks of data included phone numbers and email addresses, but that information reportedly was not a part of the latest data release.
The breach, which includes Social Security numbers and other sensitive data, could power a raft of identity theft, fraud and other crimes, said Teresa Murray, consumer watchdog director for the U.S. Public Information Research Group.
“If this in fact is pretty much the whole dossier on all of us, it certainly is much more concerning” than prior breaches, Murray said in an interview.
“And if people weren’t taking precautions in the past, which they should have been doing, this should be a five-alarm wake-up call for them.”
National Public Data didn’t respond to a request for comment from media sources, nor has it formally notified people about the alleged breach.
However, it has been telling people who contacted it via email that “we are aware of certain third-party claims about consumer data and are investigating these issues,” per the Los Angeles Time.
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Millions of Americans have now been exposed to bank data leak after bad actors breached the systems of a Utah-based fintech firm.
According to a report by Health Equity, an administrator of health savings accounts (HSAs), has disclosed a security incident to the Office of the Maine Attorney General.
The incident resulted in unauthorized access to or disclosure of the sensitive data belonging to approximately 4.3 million of Health Equity’s customers.
This data breach at Health Equity, a prominent HSA provider, is concerning as it involves the potential compromise of sensitive financial and personal information belonging to millions of individuals who have entrusted the company with their health savings accounts.
The disclosure to the Maine Attorney General’s office indicates that Health Equity is taking steps to report and address this security breach in accordance with applicable data privacy and protection regulations.
However, the scale of the incident, involving the data of 4.3 million customers, suggests this could have significant implications for those affected individuals.
According to the report, the data that was stolen may include a customer’s:
- First and last name
- Address
- Telephone number
- Employee ID
- Name of employer
- Social security number
- Dependent information
- Payment card information
“We learned during our investigation that a vendor’s user accounts – which had access to an online data storage location – were compromised, and that because of this, an unauthorized party was able to access a limited amount of data stored in a storage location outside our core systems,” the company stated.
For now, HealthEquity says it does not believe any customer information captured in the hack has been used maliciously.
The firm is offering victims a two-year complimentary credit identity, monitoring, insurance and restoration services.
HealthEquity also recommends that its members routinely review their financial statements and credit reports for suspicious activities.
HealthEquity is an Internal Revenue Service (IRS)-designated non-bank health savings trustee with 16 million members nationwide.
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