The Social Security data breach compromised 'billions' of accounts. Here's one easy, free way to protect yourself. In early 2024, background checking service National Public Data was hit by a massive ...

National Public Data (NPD), a background check company, admitted it exposed sensitive info like phone numbers, addresses and Social Security numbers to hackers. While the company hasn’t shared how big ...

National Public Data, which aggregates data to provide background checks, has confirmed it suffered a massive data breach involving Social Security numbers and other personal data on millions of ...

NPD obtains its data by scraping the personally identifiable information of billions of individuals from non-public sources. This means that those affected may not have knowingly provided their data ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following a massive data breach, your private information might be lingering on the dark web. National Public Data, a ...

Over a year ago, National Public Data (NPD) made headlines for one of the largest breaches in history. The people search site exposed the personal information of 3 billion individuals. After ...

The breach concerns a little-known company called National Public Data, which performs background checks on US residents. Last week, the company finally confirmed that hackers stole a large database ...