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Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American

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Data dump includes 2.7 billion records of personal info for people in the US .

Names, Social Security Numbers , potential aliases and all physical addresses they are known to have lived at.

Data is believed to have been obtained from a broker called National Public Data .

In April , hacking collective USDoD attempted to sell 2.9 billion records it claimed was stolen from the broker.

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