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National Public Data leak exposes billions of records
Background-check firm National Public Data was breached, with a hacker offering 2.9 billion rows including US Social Security numbers.
- Organisation
- National Public Data
- Disclosed
- 15 August 2024
- Affected
- 2,900,000,000 (claimed by attacker, unconfirmed)
- Data
- Names, SSNs, addresses
- Attacker
- USDoD
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Krebs on Security ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “National Public Data leak exposes billions of records”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 15 Aug 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-08-15-national-public-data-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Krebs on Security, https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/nationalpublicdata-com-hack-exposes-a-nations-data/.
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