NPD: National Public Data confirms a data breach following reports of 2.9 billion personal data records being negotiated. However, the company claims that the massive data breach affected 1.3 million people in the US.
Information from hacking groups and a class of lawsuit documents sourced by Bloomberg Law stated that a recent data breach leaked around 2.9 billion people’s personal and sensitive information. Also, the National Public Data Center confirms this and states:
“There appears to have been a data security incident that may have involved some of your personal information… The information that was suspected of being breached contained name, email address, phone number, social security number, and mailing address.”
No official reports of affected victims from the UK or Canada have been received until now. But the NPD says they are reviewing the affected records and working with law enforcement.
In a separate notification on the massive data breach on the Maine Attorney General’s website, it was disclosed that 1.3 million people were affected. If this is true, it will be relatively good news, as the 2.9 billion number was on a huge scale.
Moreover, NPD says that the massive data breach affected 1.3 million people in the US, “The incident is believed to have involved a third-party bad actor that was trying to hack into data in late December 2023, with potential leaks of certain data in April 2024 and summer 2024.”
