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Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from background check firm'

ID: 3054c6bb-5243-55d0-ac62-70f2870f6218

STIX ID: report--3054c6bb-5243-55d0-ac62-70f2870f6218

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
90/100

Date Published: 2024-06-03

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Jessica Lyons

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A criminal group known as USDoD is offering for sale a ~277GB dataset purportedly containing nearly 2.9 billion records allegedly obtained from National Public Data; the trove reportedly includes sensitive PII such as full names, addresses (including history), social security numbers, and relatives. Security researchers from VX-Underground verified parts of the dataset and report the sellers plan to leak or sell the information, creating widespread identity-theft and privacy risk.

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