"I come to it with some fatigue."
""Every week, there's another finding where it looks big on paper, but it's probably not very novel," Pollock says, "So I was surprised when I started digging into the specific cases here to validate the data. In some cases, the identities in this data breach are at risk because they have been exposed, but they have not yet been exploited.""
Greg Pollock of UpGuard discovered a publicly accessible database in January containing massive amounts of Americans' personal data. The raw totals included roughly 3 billion email addresses and passwords and about 2.7 billion records that included Social Security numbers, though not all entries represent unique or valid information. The dataset appears to be compiled from multiple historic breaches and may include data from the 2024 National Public Data breach. The data was hosted by German cloud provider Hetzner; Pollock notified Hetzner on January 16 and the customer removed the data on January 21. Some exposed identities may be at risk but have not yet been exploited.
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