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Health Researchers Often Overlook Security of Historical DatasetsAn August 2025 ransomware attack on the University of Hawaii Cancer Center's epidemiology division has affected 1.2 million individuals, including personal information such as Social Security numbers of certain research study participants dating back more than 30 years.
PayPal is notifying customers of a data breach after a software error in a loan application exposed their sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, for nearly 6 months last year. [...]
Insurer's Hack Could Rank as Largest US Health Data Breach Reported in 2025Supplemental health insurer Aflac is notifying 22.65 million people whose sensitive health and personal information, including Social Security numbers, was potentially compromised in a June data theft incident. The incident will likely rank as the biggest U.S. health data breach reported in 2025.
Insurer's Hack Could Rank as Largest US Health Data Breach Reported in 2025Supplemental health insurer Aflac is notifying 22.65 million people whose sensitive health and personal information, including Social Security numbers, was potentially compromised in a June data theft incident. The incident will likely rank as the biggest U.S. health data breach reported in 2025.
Pajemploi, the French social security service for parents and home-based childcare providers, has suffered a data breach that may have exposed personal information of 1.2 million individuals. [...]
Breach Notification Service Details Peer-to-Peer Lending Marketplace Victim CountHackers appear to have stolen personal information pertaining to more than 17 million individuals from peer-to-peer lending marketplace Prosper, including Social Security numbers, contact information and some income and financial details, says the Have I Been Pwned breach notification service.
Department of Government Efficiency Staffers Created 'Live Replica' of SSA DataThe Social Security Administration's chief data officer is warning in a whistleblower complaint that DOGE created a cloud replica of the Social Security database without proper authorization or oversight, potentially exposing the personal data of 300 million Americans.
Personal Data Stolen in Ransomware Hit, Says Dutch Owner of Stop & Shop, Giant FoodFood retail giant Ahold Delhaize USA is notifying 2.2 million current and former employees, as well as an unspecified number of employees in the Netherlands, that a November 2024 data breach exposed their personally identifiable information, including Social Security numbers and medical details.
A threat actor has re-released data from a 2021 AT&T breach affecting 70 million customers, this time combining previously separate files to directly link Social Security numbers and birth dates to individual users. [...]
A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the latest exhibit in the Trump administration's continued disregard for basic cybersecurity protections. The message instructed recently-fired CISA employees to get in touch so they can be rehired and then immediately placed on leave, asking employees to send their Social Security number or date of birth in a password-protected email attachment -- presumably with the password needed to view the file included in the body of the email.
Class act: Biz only serves 60M people across America, no biggie A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and teachers' personal data – including some Social Security Numbers and medical info – stolen.…
Brazilian authorities reportedly have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of being "USDoD," a prolific cybercriminal who rose to infamy in 2022 after infiltrating the FBI's InfraGard program and leaking contact information for 80,000 members. More recently, USDoD was behind a breach at the consumer data broker National Public Data that led to the leak of Social Security numbers and other personal information for a significant portion of the U.S. population.
1.3 Million Individuals Being Notified Their Social Security Numbers Were StolenBackground check firm Jericho Pictures, which does business as National Public Data, is notifying 1.3 million individuals that their personal information was stolen via a December 2023 breach of its systems. The stolen information was listed for sale on a cybercrime market beginning in April.
New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans' Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently published the passwords to its back-end database in a file that was freely available for download from its homepage until today.
Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, more all out there A Florida firm has all but confirmed that millions of people's sensitive personal info was stolen from it by cybercriminals and publicly leaked.…
Background check service National Public Data confirms that hackers breached its systems after threat actors leaked a stolen database with millions of social security numbers and other sensitive personal information. [...]
A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named consumer data broker called NationalPublicData.com. This post examines what we know about a breach that has exposed hundreds of millions of consumer records. We'll also take a closer look at the data broker that got hacked -- a background check company founded by an actor and retired sheriff's deputy from Florida.
Almost 2.7 billion records of personal information for people in the United States were leaked on a hacking forum, exposing names, social security numbers, all known physical addresses, and possible aliases. [...]
The Breach Notice Raises the Question of Whether Sav-Rx Paid a RansomA Nebraska firm that provides medication benefits management and pharmacy services is notifying more than 2.8 million individuals of an October 2023 hacking incident involving the potential theft of their personal information, including Social Security numbers. Did the company pay a ransom?
24 million Americans thought to have had their personal data stolen and sold for pennies A Ukrainian national is facing an eight year prison sentence for running an online marketplace that sold the personal data of approximately 24 million US citizens.…