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And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.

About four months ago, a notorious hacking group claimed to have stolen an extraordinary amount of sensitive personal data from a major data broker.

Now we find out today that a member of that group reportedly released most of the data that they hacked, free,

online, in a marketplace for stolen personal data.

And that breach includes social security numbers and other sensitive data.

Huh.

So that could bring on a rash of identity theft, fraud, and other crimes according to the

U.S. Public Information Research Group, you think? This in fact is pretty much a whole dossier

on all of us. It certainly is much more concerning than other breaches, uh-huh.

And if people weren't taking precautions in the

past, which they should have been doing, this should be a five alarm wake-up

call for them. Yeah, so it's on you. It's all on you.

Sorry, we've talked about that before. It's on you. All your information is out there.

It's just inevitable. So this, according to a class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,

the hacking group, U.S. DoD.

The U.S. D.D. claimed in April to have stolen personal records of 2.9 billion people from national public data which offers personal information to

employers, private investigators, staffing agencies, and others doing background checks. The group offered a forum for hackers to sell the

data which included records from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom for

$3.5 million dollars. The lawsuit was reported on Bloomberg law, but they said that

the US DoD identified only as Felice told the hacking forum that you know what we're

offering the full NPD database. Sure the information consists of about 2.7 billion records each of which includes a person's

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