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The breach, which includes Social Security numbers and other sensitive data, could power a raft of identity theft, fraud and other crimes, said Teresa Murray, consumer watchdog director for the U ...
After a class action lawsuit was filed Aug. 1, the claim that a vast trove of Social Security numbers may have been exposed in the breach has taken off, being echoed across mainstream and social ...
Between May and July 2017, American credit bureau Equifax was breached. Private records of 147.9 million Americans along with 15.2 million British citizens and about 19,000 Canadian citizens were compromised in the breach, making it one of the largest cybercrimes related to identity theft. Equifax discovered the breach end of July, but did not ...
NPD confirmed this week that a security incident within their company resulted in a leak of personal information, including social security numbers for millions of people. In their statement on ...
June: the records of 21.5 million people, including social security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, fingerprints, and security clearance-related information, are stolen from the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). [97] Most of the victims are employees of the United States government and unsuccessful applicants to it.
The Office of Personnel Management data breach was a 2015 data breach targeting Standard Form 86 (SF-86) U.S. government security clearance records retained by the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). One of the largest breaches of government data in U.S. history, the attack was carried out by an advanced persistent threat based ...
The company whose data breach potentially exposed every American's Social Security number to identity thieves finally has acknowledged the data theft — and said hackers obtained even more ...
Data breach. A data breach, also known as data leakage, is "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information ". [1] Attackers have a variety of motives, from financial gain to political activism, political repression, and espionage. There are several technical root causes of data breaches, including accidental or ...