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In 2015, Jay Jacobs, an analyst working on data breach reporting for Verizon, estimated that as many as 60% to 80% of all Social Security numbers in the U.S. had been compromised.
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The lawsuit says the plaintiff got an alert in July from an identity theft protection company saying his Social Security number had been leaked as a result of a breach of National Public Data.
That hacker claimed the stolen files include 2.7 billion records, with each listing a person's full name, address, date of birth, Social Security number and phone number, Bleeping Computer said.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Include your name, address, Social Security number and copies of documentation proving your identity (like a driver's license, utility bill, or bank statement). 2. Experian: