Most SSNs have been leaked to the Dark Web in recent years — making it more important than ever to learn how to make yourself a less vulnerable target.
How to Check If Your SSN Was Leaked To determine if your SSN has been leaked: Contact the organization involved in the breach:Most companies provide updates and resources for affected individuals. Use government or trusted services:For example, the U.S. government’sIdentityTheft.govwebsite can ...
The conflict between USDoD and CrowdStrike beganin July 2024, when the hacker announced that he had scraped and leaked a 100,000-line Indicator of Compromise (IoC) list from the company. Apparently, it took CrowdStrike less than a month to “dox” the hacker in response. On the other hand...
on the dark web. It was described as containing records for roughly 2.9 billion people. The asking price for a purchase was only $3.5 million which seems like a small price considering the widespread impact the public release would result in. The database was later leaked to a forum for fr...
Last week, National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker, dropped the bomb that it had been breached and that hundreds of millions of Social Security Numbers (SSNs), names, addresses, dates of birth, and more had been leaked publicly. This is one of the most significant data brea...
National Public Data, a service by Jerico Pictures Inc., suffered a massive breach. Hacker “Fenice” leaked 2.9 billion records with personal details, including full names, addresses, and SSNs in plain text. The breach poses significant risks for identity theft and financial fraud. Jerico Pictur...
In 2013, a copy of the carding forumcarder[dot]prowas leaked online. Forum records show that the lxg89@rambler.ru address was used by a member who picked the username “Zack,” and who told other members to contact him on the ICQ instant messenger account 383337. On Vkontakte.ru, a ...
Names, date of birth details, social security numbers got leaked on the marketplace that is now taken down The international law enforcement operation ended in with the SSNDOB takedown. FBI seized the ID theft service for selling the personal information of 24 million people.[1]The Department ...