JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Social Security number of every American may have been stolen in a huge computer hack, and a Florida company is at the center of it.
The Los Angeles Times reported a hacking group said it stole the data and put nearly three billion individual records for sale on the dark web.
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It was stolen from a company called National Public Data out of Coral Springs, Florida. Those records are from the U.S., U.K., and Canada.
It includes a person’s full name, address, date of birth, phone numbers, and for U.S. citizens, your Social Security number.
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“We give people tips to protect themselves, but at the end of the day is this a losing battle?,” cyber security expert Craig Agranoff said. “Unfortunately, it is a losing battle, because the hackers are a lot smarter than us and these could be 14-year-old kids in some foreign land just having fun.”
National Public Data has not formally notified people about the data breach.
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