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National Public Data Data Breach Apr 2024

No known CVEs used

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Security Incident Summary

Severity Score

Very High

Organization

National Public Data

Threat Actor

USDoD

aka

Actor Type

Unknown

Type of Breach

Data Breach

News Timeline

Oct 18, 2024

Additional Report

Brazil Arrests ‘USDoD,’ Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach krebsonsecurity.com - The arrest of "USDoD," confirmed as 33-year-old Luan BG from Brazil, adds a significant development to the cybercriminal's activities, highlighting his direct involvement in the unauthorized access an...
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Oct 09, 2024

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National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admits 'hundreds of millions' potentially affected go.theregister.com - The filing for bankruptcy by National Public Data's owner, Jerico Pictures, revealed the data breach impacted hundreds of millions more individuals than initially reported, expanding the scope of the ...
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Sep 24, 2024

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GUEST ESSAY: Massive NPD breach tells us its high time to replace SSNs as an authenticator lastwatchdog.com - The NPD breach has revealed that the data exposure included not only the personal information of around 1.3 million individuals as initially reported but also 134 million unique email addresses and cr...
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Aug 19, 2024

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National Public Data tells officials 'only' 1.3M people affected by intrusion go.theregister.com - National Public Data (NPD) has revised the number of individuals affected by their data breach to 1.3 million, significantly lower than initial estimates. Notably, security expert Troy Hunt discovered...
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National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords krebsonsecurity.com - Newly revealed information about the National Public Data (NPD) breach shows that a related data broker, recordscheck.net, inadvertently exposed usernames and passwords to its back-end database via a ...
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Aug 17, 2024

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National Public Data confirms a data breach securityaffairs.com - New information in the recent breach of National Public Data reveals that the compromised database, allegedly sold on a dark web forum by a cybercriminal group named USDoD, was reported to contain the...
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Aug 15, 2024

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NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data krebsonsecurity.com - On July 21, 2024, 4 terabytes of data from NationalPublicData.com were leaked online, revealing personal information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, and Social Security Numbers, with 137 mill...
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Aug 14, 2024

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Unconfirmed Hack of 2.9 Billion Records at National Public Data Sparks Media Frenzy Amid Lawsuits securityweek.com - On April 8, 2024, the threat actor USDoD claimed to be selling a 4 terabyte database allegedly exfiltrated from National Public Data (NPD) containing 2.9 billion records, with reputable sources confir...
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Aug 06, 2024

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Personal Data of 3 Billion People Stolen in Hack news.bloomberglaw.com - The personal information of nearly 3 billion individuals being posted for sale on the dark web by the cybercriminal group USDoD. Notably, the data includes sensitive details like Social Security numbe...
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One of the biggest data breaches ever leaks details on billions of users — here's what we know so far techradar.com - A class action lawsuit against National Public Data (NPD) has revealed that a data breach exposed the personal information of 2.9 billion individuals, with data being sold on the dark web by the cyber...
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Aug 04, 2024

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Hackers attempt to sell the personal data of 3 billion people resulting from an April data breach securityaffairs.com - New information reveals that the threat actor group USDoD posted the personal data of 2.9 billion individuals for sale on April 8 and set a price of $3.5 million. VX-underground researchers confirmed ...
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Organization Details

Organization Size

Unknown

HQ Location

Coral Springs, Florida

Industry

Unknown

Security Stack used by National Public Data at time of breach (best approximation) Why?

Network Security

VPN/SASE

IDS/IPS

Endpoint Security

EDR

MDM

Identity Management

SSO / MFA

IGA

Application Security

WAF

SCA

Cloud Security

CASB

CWPP

SIEM / Threat Intel

SIEM

TIP

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What is National Public Data?

Jerico Pictures, which operates National Public Data (NPD), is a background-checking service which scrapes personally identifiable information (PII) of individuals from non-public sources.

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Security Incident Summary

Severity Score

Insignificant

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Type of Breach

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