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The incident was extensive enough to now rank as the 12th-largest data breach in history, although the biggest of all-time remains a 2013 breach of 3 million Yahoo! user accounts.
[2] [3] One of the largest breaches of government data in U.S. history, [1] information that was obtained and exfiltrated in the breach [4] included personally identifiable information such as Social Security numbers, [5] as well as names, dates and places of birth, and addresses. [6]
What information is included in the data breach. Along with Social Security numbers, hackers stole names, phone numbers, mailing addresses and email addresses, according to National Public Data ...
The lawsuit says the plaintiff got an alert in July from an identity theft protection company saying his Social Security number had been leaked as a result of a breach of National Public Data.
In August 2024, three class-action lawsuits were filed against National Public Data along with over 14 complaints filed in federal court, claiming that the company permitted hackers to steal sensitive private information covering millions of individuals. [7] [8] The theft was alleged to have occurred in April 2024.
June 2015 – United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that it had been the target of a data breach targeting personnel records. [9] Approximately 22.1 million records were affected, including records related to government employees, other people who had undergone background checks, and their friends and family. [10] [11]
Here is what Texans should know about the breach and how you can protect your information going forward. ... P.O. Box 105788, Atlanta, GA 30348. Include your name, address, Social Security number ...
The first reported data breach occurred on 5 April 2002 [8] when 250,000 social security numbers collected by the State of California were stolen from a data center. [9] Before the widespread adoption of data breach notification laws around 2005, the prevalence of data breaches is difficult to determine.