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Brazilian police arrested the hacker who stole everyone’s SSN

The source of the breach recently filed for bankruptcy.

The data from that hack, which came to light in August, was put for sale on the dark web in April by an entity identifying themselves as USDoD. As pointed out by Bleeping Computer, according to a machine translation of the department’s press release, the hacker was linked to “two publications selling” federal police data. National Public Data and its parent company, Jerico Pictures, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month, facing a flood of lawsuits and potential penalties over the incident.

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