Every American's Social Security number, address may have been stolen in hack

Every American's Social Security number and address may have been stolen in hack

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00:00A major hack followed by a leak means some of your most sensitive personal information may already be exposed.

00:05And we are talking about social security numbers and more.

00:08Fox 5's Josh Rosenthal tonight in Northwest with what you need to know.

00:13Your social security number, my social security number, all of our social security numbers potentially hacked.

00:22Is this legit that every American's social security number may be out there?

00:29Yeah, it's very possible.

00:32Here's the deal. A group of hackers reportedly claims to have stolen nearly three billion records of personal information,

00:39including names, social security numbers and addresses.

00:43Then it was all leaked.

00:45It's believed the information comes from a business called National Public Data,

00:50which, according to its website, is used by other companies to obtain criminal records, background checks and more.

00:58I think people should be very upset about this.

01:00They should ask, why is this company, you know, why do they have all of that information?

01:05And when they had it, who was making sure that they were protecting it?

01:08Lou Rabban, CEO of Cyber Defense Group, told us this is a big deal and Americans should be concerned.

01:15However, he also acknowledged that because this type of thing seems to happen so frequently,

01:20a lot of people, including some we talked to Wednesday in Northwest, have what Rabban refers to as breach fatigue.

01:28I try to be concerned, but it's really difficult nowadays. Like, it's impossible.

01:33You kind of feel like your information is already out there.

01:35Yeah, I think so.

01:39We did reach out to that company, National Public Data, looking for comment, but so far we've yet to hear back.