This news will not bring confidence in the safe and fair presidential election in November.
this Los Angeles Times Shocking news was revealed on Tuesday: In April, a notorious global hacker group called USDoD may have stolen an alarming amount of sensitive personal information from as many as 2.9 billion people around the world. The company victimized by the group is National Public Data Company (NPD), an important data broker.
Now a member of the group has reportedly posted nearly everything for free on an online marketplace in a bid to obtain stolen personal data.
according to erathe stolen information could include every Social Security number in the United States and other sensitive data. News of the hack was discovered in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
According to the complaint, the U.S. Department of Defense previously sold the personal data for $3.5 million.
this Los Angeles Times Report:
In April, hacker group USDoD claimed to have stolen the personal records of 2.9 billion people from the nation’s public data, which it shared with employers, private investigators, staffing agencies and Other agencies that conduct background checks.
A cybersecurity expert posted on X that the organization sold the data, including records from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, to hackers on a forum for $3.5 million.
Last week, a man claiming to be a member of the U.S. Department of Defense, Felice, told a hacker forum that they were providing a “complete NPD database,” according to screenshots taken by BleepingComputer. Felice claims the information contains approximately 2.7 billion records, each of which includes a person’s full name, address, date of birth, Social Security number and phone number, as well as an alias and date of birth.
Teresa Murray, director of the Consumer Watchdog Group, an American public information research group, said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that if the U.S. Department of Defense is telling the truth, then this hacking attack has affected Americans more than previous hacking attacks. Much more serious.
“If this was actually the entire profile of all of us, that would certainly be more concerning,” Murray said. “If people haven’t taken the precautions they should have taken in the past, this should be a five-alarm warning for them.”
NPD has not yet formally notified people of the alleged violations. Instead, NPD told people who contacted it by email, “We are aware of claims made by certain third parties regarding consumer data and are investigating these matters.”
If hackers can steal Social Security numbers, what’s to stop them from manipulating November’s vote count? Democrats should be embarrassed for smearing and blocking conservatives from passing election integrity laws across the country.
