Data Breach Exposes 2.7 Billion Public Records On Nearly 3 Billion People To Dark Web

The alleged data stolen included: Full names, phone numbers, home addresses, physical address history (up to 3 decades), and social security numbers.

CYBER - The "USDoD" hacking group claims to have stolen 2.7 billion records on around 2.9 billion people after a data breach on National Public Data (NPD) database containing personal data on virtually all American citizens and released most of it in a dark web marketplace where stolen data is sold off for $3.5 million USD.

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The alleged data stolen included: Full names, phone numbers, home addresses, physical address history (up to 3 decades), and social security numbers.

Those who used data opt-out services did not show up in the database, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale. Records offered by the hackers in an online forum included data from citizens from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

The breach was detailed in a class action complaint that was filed in Florida against the NPD background-checking agency, alleging that the agency was exposed to a data breach around April of 2024.

National Public Data's website says that they obtain "information from various public record databases, court records, state and national databases, and other repositories nationwide".

The information allegedly leaked by NPD had been scraped from sources that were not public and the one who filed the complaint alleged this was done without their permission, or the permission of billions of others whose data was exposed during the breach.

Class Action Lawsuit Document Regarding The Alleged Breach

The following is the class action lawsuit document regarding the alleged data breach. No PDF document was available so I took screenshots of all 50 pages and embedded them into a PDF document, then extracted the text and spent many hours formatting the text by hand so that text versions could be available.

I have included multiple versions of the lawsuit document as PDF files and attached below, for those who wish to see it in various formats such as images or text: