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National Public Data tells officials 'only' 1.3M people affected by intrusion
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2024
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Biggest lie of the year award... it's trivially easy to check how many unique SSNs are in the leak, and it's 272 million.
Yes, but according to that same article, "49% of the SSNs exposed don’t include the minimum quality to pose a risk for identity attacks". So it's more like 136 million.
Even still,
Plus, identity attacks are not the only risk of this data being exposed. Stalkers, violent offenders etc. now have addresses/phone numbers and other info they can use as well. Their definition of identity attack also may not be the same as yours. Even if it's just a name and SSN, that may not qualify to them, but could be useful to someone else in a negative way.