Wino wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 10:45 pm Google NPD - it's legit and their screw up. Do it don't do it, your choice. This security breach was serious enough that I wasn't willing not to do something.
The only thing you have to input is your name, State and birthdate - when results turn up it will show what is exposed for you - you don't input email or phone number, those fuckers already have it. I was blown away when I saw how many hits I had, even with old address from 30+ years ago.

“Most of the time, when Social Security numbers are sold on the dark web, they are sold to a single customer,” he added. “Now 272 million leaked. This will definitely be used for identity theft and spammers.”

In addition, about 20% of the records in the database appear to be legitimate, according to Atlas, which has been cross-referencing the details in the leak with records found in other breaches.

That said, the information from the National Public Data leak likely impacts older Americans more than younger adults since the average age of the people contained in the database is 70. Another 2 million people in the database are also over 120 years old, an indicator that some of the information belongs to the deceased. Meanwhile, all the records appear to belong to people born before Jan. 1, 2002, added Atlas Privacy’s Chief Strategy Officer Zack Ganot.

Not all the information in the database is accurate either. Ganot noted the archive didn’t have the correct details on himself. Still, others might be shocked to see highly accurate records in the database, including their correct date of birth, Social Security number, and historic mailing addresses going back to at least the 1990s.

highdesert wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:05 am Organizations are so lax with our personal data and I don't see our laws and law enforcement protecting us. We really need to tighten up our state and federal privacy and hacking laws. One of the entities that was hacked was the cancer treatment center I went to, so my medical files are probably someplace on the internet. One of the big reasons why I don't want my medical data on the internet, but our insurance carriers do it anyway.

Wino wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 2:29 pm highdesert - the only down side to this is receiving constant offers from the credit bureaus to up grade your coverage beyond the free security freeze. I had to unsubscribe from their emails/text but still accept notices of outside access. I also have all my credit cards set to notify me of any purchases over their minimum charge, which ranges from $1 to $10 on my 4 credit cards. I do not have any debt cards and never will. When I make an on line purchase or in person at store. I'm notified of the purchase before I even get a receipt by my cell phone.

Wino wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 2:47 pm Starting this AM I've had a deluge of phishing emails about 25+ up to now. Suspect it has to do with this damned breach.