World's Biggest Data Breach?: Personal Information of 2.9 Billion Exposed in National Public Data Hack—How It Happened

Analyzing the massive data breach plus tips on what to do if you are affected or want to prevent your data from being exposed in future data breaches

"In this case, National Public Data scraped non-public sources for personally identifiable information (PII) of billions of people, many of whom did not willingly provide their data."

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https://mania.africa/worlds-biggest-data-breach-personal-information-of-2-9-billion-exposed/

Two consecutive stories on my Mastodon feed show the dichotomy and dissonance that we are currently experiencing. On the one hand, a major cloud hack has compromised the information of countless Americans, and on the other hand a technology publication encouraging businesses to not soft pedal on AI.

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Ticketmaster confirms data hack which could affect 560m globally https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw99ql0239wo

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#Twitter: Millions of users' #email addresses 'stolen' in #datahack https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64153381

Cool. Just burning my old email account now. Starting fresh. #DataHack #IdentityTheft

Robot Vacuums Suck Up Sensitive Audio in ‘LidarPhone’ Hack - Researchers have unveiled an attack that allows attackers to eavesdrop on homeowners inside their ... https://threatpost.com/robot-vacuums-audio-lidarphone-hack/161421/ #dustcloudsoftwarestack #academicresearch #xiaomiroborock #eavesdropping #vacuumcleaner #websecurity #armcortex-m #robotvacuum #lidarphone #datahack #privacy #hacks #lidar #iot

Data on almost every citizen of Georgia posted on hacker forum - Where did it all come from? 4.9m records were posted on a hacking forum - and the country only has... more: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/31/data-on-almost-every-citizen-of-georgia-posted-on-hacker-forum/ #securitythreats #exposeddatabase #underthebreach #dataexposed #hackerforum #dataloss #datahack #dataleak #privacy #doxxing #georgia #pii

Slickwraps data breach earns scorn for all - The breach earned derision from both the hacker and observers after another hacker exploited the c... more: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/02/27/slickwraps-data-breach-earns-scorn-for-all/ #securitythreats #vulnerability #exposeddata #databreach #slickwraps #vinylskins #dataloss #datahack #dataleak #lynx0x00 #privacy #breach #hacker

Data thieves blew cover after maxing out victim’s hard drive - The FTC has reached a settlement with InfoTrax after thieves stole a million sensitive customer re... more: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/11/15/data-thieves-blew-cover-after-maxing-out-victims-hard-drive/ #federaltradecommission #securitythreats #datatheft #dataloss #datahack #infotrax #privacy #utah #ftc

Hacker breached servers used by NordVPN - NordVPN has been forced to admit that a hacker stole an expired TLS certificate key used to secure... more: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/10/23/hacker-breached-servers-used-by-nordvpn/ #virtualprivatenetwork #securitythreats #vulnerability #databreach #datahack #dataleak #torguard #privacy #nordvpn #hacker #vpn