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The hacking group going by the name of USDoD has stolen and posted personal records of up to 2.9 billion people from National Public Data (“NPD”) including your social security number going back 30 years. 277 gigabytes of data includes names, address histories, relatives and Social Security numbers. USDoD has been observed being directly involved in hacking, selling, and in some cases exaggerated postings in the past on CrowdStrike, the FBI InfraGard public-private partnership program, LinkedIn, Airbus, and recently SOCRadar to name a few.  Records for citizens of the U.S (as well as those in the U.K. and Canada) has been seen on the resurrected criminal forum Breachforums. For sale offerings of the data for $3.5 million been seen going back to April 2024. Jerico Pictures operating as National Public Data ("NPD") is a Florida-based background-check company involved with this latest breach.  The reason for this post is affected individuals are now being notified directly, several lawsuits have appeared, and for some reason there is sudden newsmedia coverage. Getting yet another year of more “credit monitoring” will only do so much. Please freeze your credit with all the major bureaus if you haven’t done this!!! Stay Safe! Notification from NPD: https://lnkd.in/gcJH44xF What To Do and How to Freeze: https://lnkd.in/gkFpzunB and https://lnkd.in/gwZvf8Va Newsmedia coverage from various outlets: https://lnkd.in/g99DGrJ6, https://lnkd.in/gC-6ipB2,  https://lnkd.in/gegn-BP9, Court Dockets: https://lnkd.in/gTs7vZcX

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