(Part of the biometric product marketing expert series)
Fiona Jackson of TechRepublic shared this two days ago.
In August, a hacker dumped 2.7 billion data records, including social security numbers, on a dark web forum, in one of the biggest breaches in history.
The data may have been stolen from background-checking service National Public Data at least four months ago. Each record has a person’s name, mailing address, and SSN, but some also contain other sensitive information, such as names of relatives…
Note that 2.7 billion data records does not equal 2.7 billion people, since a person may have multiple data records.
Was your data leaked?
Rich DeMuro posted a link to see if your data was leaked. If you want to check, go to https://npd.pentester.com/, enter the requested information (you will NOT be asked for your Social Security Number), and the site will display a masked list of the matching information in the breach.
One lesson from the National Public Data breach should have been obvious long ago: anyone who relies on a Social Security Number as a form of positive identification is a fool.
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