National Public Data Breach

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Plain text passwords may have struck again

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National Public Data ( NPD ) confirmed last week that it suffered a security breach dating back to December last year .

An alleged stolen NPD database containing 2.9 billion lines of data, including Social Security numbers, was advertised on the dark web in April by a hacker group known as USDoD for $3.5 million .

A roughly identical website to NPD called recordscheck.net was found to be hosting an archive containing logins and source code for some of the site’s tools in plaintext.

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