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Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of all Americans. Here's what to know.

A new lawsuit is claiming hackers have gained access to the personal information of “billions of individuals,” including their Social Security numbers, current and past addresses and the names of siblings and parents — personal data that could allow fraudsters to infiltrate financial accounts or take out loans in their names.

The allegation arose in a lawsuit filed earlier this month by Christopher Hofmann, a California resident who claims his identity theft protection service alerted him that his personal information had been leaked to the dark web by the “nationalpublicdata.com” breach. The lawsuit was earlier reported by Bloomberg Law.

The breach allegedly occurred around April 2024, with a hacker group called USDoD exfiltrating the unencrypted personal information of billions of individuals from a company called National Public Data (NPD), a background check company, according to the lawsuit. Earlier this month, a hacker leaked a version of the stolen NPD data for free on a hacking forum, tech site Bleeping Computer reported.

gentooer ,

Social Security Numbers are such a weird thing. Over here we’ve got an official rijksregisternummer that you get assigned at birth by the state and can be used to identify you. For some reason the USA decided that something like this is against their Freedoms ©®™, but when an agency gave people numbers for something completely different, that was never build to identify everyone in the country, everyone decided this is great to identify everyone in the country, so now everyone uses this system for something it was never built for.

LePoisson ,

The social security agency is the same thing here. SSN is the same as your rijksregisternummer but don’t take my word for it.

www.ssa.gov/history/orghist.html

It’s literally an identification number assigned at by the federal government to identify you - usually you get them at birth but not always. Depends on your parents I suppose.

www.ssa.gov/agency/pillars/support.html

Kiernian ,

In the sense of “Simpsons did it!”:

Equifax did it first.

Sure wish the massive corporate incompetence and malfeasance causing huge data leaks multiple times over the years would get mentioned every time one of these stories comes up.

Hackers did blah, this WOULD ALMOST matter, but!

We need to start redirecting some of those board bonuses and CEO dollars back into infrastructure to actually secure this shit as a required responsibility and stop places from being allowed to request personal information they shouldn’t have.

Tilgare ,

These companies should be paying fines in the BILLIONS of dollars for their malfeasance. I got a notice from work this morning, this is horrifying.

Pandantic ,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

Hey, good thing I already got my personal information stolen from my doctor’s office or something so I already have a year’s free credit monitoring with alerts etc. 🙂‍↕️

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