This may be old news (happened this Spring) but I’m just seeing news about it now…
The complaint, filed August 1 in a U.S. District Court in South Florida, accuses Jerico Pictures – operating as National Public Data – of failing to properly protect the personally identifiable information (PII) that it collected, including individuals’ names, current and previous addresses dating back at least three decades, Social Security numbers, and information about parents, siblings, and other relatives, some of whom have been dead for more than 20 years.
Apparently so.
No way to scrub your info from a Site like this as they are background company collecting info on everyone from multiple Sites.
It’s going to get a lot worse for everyone before it gets better, if it ever does.
Instead of the articles I went straight to the lawsuit and skimmed all 50 pages.
The crux of it:
“1654.To make matters worse, Defendant has not even provided any notice to any of the affected individuals whose PII was stolen in the Data Breach. This total failure to notice and a failure to compensate Plaintiff and Class Members. Moreover, Plaintiff and Class Members will be forced to pay out of pocket for necessary identity monitoring services in order to protect themselves from the consequences of Defendant’s actions.”
that’s brutal.
also brutal:
“Christopher Hofmann, the lead plaintiff, claims he was unaware that his data was collected by National Public Data and only discovered the breach through a notification from his identity theft protection provider. The lawsuit highlights the risks associated with unauthorized data scraping and the potential for identity theft, fraud, and harassment.”
It happened in April and was concealed. Rumors came out in June. Lifelock type services were the ones to alert the affected—
I never heard of Jerico Pictures (NDS) and I can’t tell what it is exactly…owner has yet to say a single thing about it.
These people that are taking charge of personal data for profit need to secure it and held responsible if they don’t secure it.
In April, a member of this group posted the database, which contains the data of some 2.9 billion people, up for sale for $3.5 million. Then, earlier this week, the 277 GB of data was offered for download for free on the notorious BreachForums by another member of the USDoD group.
VX-Underground also reported: 1. The database DOES NOT contain information from individuals who use data opt-out services. Every person who used some sort of data opt-out service was not present.2. People who did not use data opt-out services and resided in the United States were immediately found. It showed their: - First name- Last name- Address - Address history (3 decades+) - Social security number It also allowed us to find their parents, and nearest siblings. We were able to identify someones parents, deceased relatives, Uncles, Aunts, and Cousins.
So approximately 340 million people live in the U.S. That leaves 2.5+ billion other people that had their personal info exposed…
why does any non-governmental agency need this information? why would they even have your lineage and dead family members? maybe NDS served the insurance agencies? creditors? gov? It’s weird but I know info is currency.