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National Public Data admits it leaked Social Security numbers in a massive data breach

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

National Public Data (NPD), 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.

Finally, this week, it published a Security Incident page confirming a few details but leaving many other questions unanswered.

The incident is believed to have involved a third-party bad actor that was trying to hack into data in late December 2023, with potential leaks of certain data in April 2024 and summer 2024.

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