National Public Data Confirms Massive Breach

National Public Data (NPD) confirmed an April 2024 breach in which a third-party attacker accessed databases containing names, emails, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and addresses for people across the US, UK, and Canada; the dataset (~200 GB, advertised as ~2.9 billion rows) was posted on the dark web and assessed by researchers as largely accurate, prompting significant identity-theft and regulatory concerns.