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National Public Data tells officials 'only' 1.3M people affected by intrusion (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 months ago by minnix@lemux.minnix.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] haroldstork@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 12 points 2 months ago

Even still,

Even if only 51% of the SSNs exposed hold a minimal quality to be used in identity attacks, this translates to added risk to an unprecedented 138 million people.

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.