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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

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.

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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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— vx-underground (@vxunderground) June 1, 2024

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Troy Hunt analyzed the data on Aug 13, 2024 and found 134 million unique email addresses in one set of files. Infosecurity Magazine 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.

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