Saturday Security NPD Breach Update: Credentials at Risk with a Clear Text Catastrophe

we got an update on last week's national public data breach you can check out that video right down below so if you remember there was reported that 2.9 Million Social Security numbers were pilfered from the NPD database NPD has now publicly confirmed that a number of records were stolen but they're saying it's only 1.3 million only Troy hunt security researcher has found like 134 million sort of stray email addresses hanging out not tied to any ssns I've definitely seen an increase in spam and then finally Krebs is reporting that a sister data lookup site tied to NPD had a members. zip file that had a whole bunch of clear text usernames and passwords you definitely need to look up your name in the npd.com site I looked up mine found myself and a whole bunch of other Peter Silva so freeze that credit

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