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Massive leak of US personal information shows up on hacking forum, including almost 2.7 billion records

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Nearly 2.7 billion personal information records for people in the United States have been posted to a popular hacking forum.

The data allegedly comes from a company that collects and sells the data for legitimate use, but was stolen and put up for sale in April 2024 .

A user going by the alias Fenice posted what’s believed to be the most complete version of the stolen data for free on the Breached hacking forum on Aug. 6 .

Fenice says the data breach was actually done by a different hacker than USDoD.

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