Market 08/15: Economic Data Shatters All Forecasts

Large number of Social Security Numbers (social security) stolen

• National Public Data is a company specializing in mining people's data to sell to advertising companies

• In April 2024, this company was hacked

• On August 6, 2.7 billion data records were leaked online including names, addresses, and SSN numbers

• The accuracy of the entire 2.7 billion data records cannot be determined

• But there is certainly accurate data in it when a California resident was alerted by an identity theft protection service and sued NPD

• BleepingComputer, a technology website, investigated and discovered the incident 3 days ago

• Yesterday, the media started paying attention

What can you do to protect yourself from data theft?