From PC Mag: National Public Data, the Florida-based company behind a major leak of Social Security numbers, has officially shut down, according to the data broker’s website.
“It is with sincere regret that we inform you that National Public Data, after two decades serving the data industry, has closed,” the site now says. It ceased data sales in September.
The company’s sister property, recordschecks.net, posted a similar notice, effectively bringing an end to the companies' sales following a breach that exposed an estimated 272 million unique Social Security numbers and 600 million phone numbers.
Parent company Jerico Pictures is facing a wave of lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny for losing the data to a hacker who breached National Public Data a year ago. The stolen information—which includes full names, addresses and dates of birth—was later leaked in an online forum, making it easy for hackers to exploit the data for identity theft and other scams.
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