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Background-check giant confirms security incident leaked millions of SSNs
National Public Data released a statement about an incident that went viral on social media recently but has been known to cybersecurity experts for months.
One of the largest companies that conducts background checks confirmed that it is the source of a data breach causing national outrage due to the millions of Social Security numbers leaked. While some news outlets and social media platforms have erroneously reported that 2.9 billion people had information in the breach, Hunt estimated that the database included about 899 million unique SSNs. [The European Union’s] GDPR and the various state and national regulations coming online are good steps, but the prevention and consequence models in place today clearly do not disincentivize mass aggregation of data,” he said.
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