What victims should do now. Lawsuit claims hackers accessed billions of records, including social security numbers, by breaching background check company. A class action lawsuit has brought attention to an alleged hack of a data broker and a dataset that contains personal information, including social security numbers. The hacking group usdod claimed it had stolen personal records, including social security info, of 2.9 billion people from national public data. Here are steps you can take to see if your information was stolen and then what to do if your social security number and other personal data were leaked in the massive data hack. After completing a forensic review, investigators confirmed that files stored on the compromised systems may include people’s names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, medical treatments or histories and health insurance information
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