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# National Public Data records for sale, flagged by @vxunderground — confirmed

@vxunderground described the USDoD sale listing on June 1, 2024. The company confirmed a breach in August.

Leaked on 01 June 2024

![Evidence tray card: National Public Data records for sale, flagged by @vxunderground — confirmed](https://leakly.com/assets/og/national-public-data-breach.png)

On June 1, 2024, @vxunderground posted that a threat actor called USDoD had listed a “National Public Data” database for sale on April 8, 2024, claiming 2.9 billion records on US citizens.

> **vx-underground** @vxunderground
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> April 8th, 2024, a Threat Actor operating under the moniker "USDoD" placed a large database up for sale on Breached titled: "National Public Data". They claimed it contained 2,900,000,000 records on United States citizens. They put the data up for sale for $3,500,000.
> National
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> 1,748 likes · 345 reposts · counts as of 09 Nov 2026, 07:12 UTC
>
> — vx-underground (@vxunderground) [June 1, 2024](https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1797047998481854512)

not in our leaker index

[Troy Hunt](https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-3-billion-people-national-public-data-breach/) analyzed the data on Aug 13, 2024 and found 134 million unique email addresses in one set of files. [Infosecurity Magazine](https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/national-public-data-confirms-data/) reported on Aug 16 that the Florida-based background check company confirmed a breach that took place in April 2024.

Confirmed breach. The 2.9 billion figure is the seller’s claim and counts records, not people.

[Confirmed]

## What happened later

Confirmed: NPD acknowledged the breach.

## Sources

* [Original X post by @vxunderground](https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1797047998481854512)
* [Troy Hunt — Troy Hunt: Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach](https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-3-billion-people-national-public-data-breach/)
* [Infosecurity Magazine — Florida-Based National Public Data Confirms Data Breach](https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/national-public-data-confirms-data/)

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