Data Breach: 3 Billion National Public Data Records with SSNs Dumped Online

[2rosy]

what someone could do is provide a patch to a commonly used software library that allows a nefarious actor to do nefarious things... purely for educational purposes

 

[engineering]

what someone could do is provide a patch to a commonly used software library that allows a nefarious actor to do nefarious things... purely for educational purposes

It's an idea that dates way back.

https://www.industrialcybersecurity...foundation-for-software-supply-chain-attacks/

 

[yg10]

Hm, SSN contains 8 decimal digits what makes 1 bn of SSNs possible.
How could 3 bn SSNs be leaked?

 

[ph1l]

Hm, SSN contains 8 decimal digits what makes 1 bn of SSNs possible.
How could 3 bn SSNs be leaked?

The three billion records from the past ~30 years leaked had duplicate social security numbers. For example, my identity monitoring services showed six different leaked records with my social security number.