The weirdest ‘3 billion people’ data breach ever
by Umar Shakir from The Verge - All Posts on (#6PZK5)
Illustration: Beatrice Sala 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...