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If your social security number was breached, the best thing to do is to freeze your credit files through creating an account with one of the three consumer credit reporting agencies: Equifax ...
You can obtain a free credit report from each of the three U.S. credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) by calling 877-322-8228 or going to www.annualcreditreport.com.
According to a class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and reported by Bloomberg Law, the breach occurred around April 2024.
The number of people impacted by the breach is unclear. Although the lawsuit claims "billions of individuals" had their data stolen, the total population of the U.S. stands at about 330 million.
Similarly, a number of bills that would establish a national standard for data security breach notification have been introduced in the U.S. Congress, but none passed in the 109th Congress. [28] In fact, in 2007, three federal data breach notification laws were proposed, but none passed Congress. [ 5 ]
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.
The stolen data contains records for people in the US, UK, and Canada. [13] [14] National Public Data confirmed on August 16, 2024, there was a breach originating from someone trying to breach their systems since December 2023, with the breach occurring from April 2024 and over the next few months.
In 2015, Jay Jacobs, an analyst working on data breach reporting for Verizon, estimated that as many as 60% to 80% of all Social Security numbers in the U.S. had been compromised.