National Public Data Breach 2024. Data aggregator national public data (npd) has finally confirmed a breach that has exposed personal identity records belonging to potentially hundreds of millions of consumers across the. 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.

This breach allegedly exposed up to 2.9 billion records with highly sensitive personal data of up to 170m people in the us, uk, and canada (bloomberg. Many media outlets mistakenly reported that the national public data breach affects 2.9 billion people (that figure actually refers to the number of rows in the leaked data sets).