This is fine. Totally fine.
It is breaking news, so things are fluid and may change, but it seems really, really bad.
🚨Hackers claim to have stolen every American's Social Security number, address, & other personal information
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 14, 2024
What could possibly go wrong?
Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of every American — 2.9 billion records — via @latimes https://t.co/FeQkI9CPxC pic.twitter.com/CgDSMIHp2k
— Ashley Regan (@ashley_regan) August 13, 2024
Here's more from The LA Times:
About four months after a notorious hacking group claimed to have stolen an extraordinary amount of sensitive personal information from a major data broker, a member of the group has reportedly released most of it for free on an online marketplace for stolen personal data.
The breach, which includes Social Security numbers and other sensitive data, could power a raft of identity theft, fraud and other crimes, said Teresa Murray, consumer watchdog director for the U.S. Public Information Research Group.
“If this in fact is pretty much the whole dossier on all of us, it certainly is much more concerning” than prior breaches, Murray said in an interview. “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.”
Yikes.
🚨 #BREAKING: Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN as well as other sensitive documents, totaling around 2.9 BILLION records, per LA Times
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 14, 2024
The Biden Harris regime is TOTALLY incompetent. Run by stupid people. This should NEVER happen. pic.twitter.com/RvejTFYXV6
Someone should be held accountable, but no one will be.
This is all happening under Kamala Harris's watch. https://t.co/0Ogsu8th3t
— Joel Fischer 🇺🇸 (@realJoelFischer) August 14, 2024
Yes it is.
https://t.co/q6eMDkI1Im pic.twitter.com/trMBrvGsMJ
— Frankie Negrette (@R_ZR) August 14, 2024
Just a little.
Tfw the US gets doxxed https://t.co/Q3FtvoVjfw
— 🇩🇪Nivka🌸 (@Animuwrangel) August 14, 2024
We all got doxxed.
Why?… we’re all broke. Focus on the politicians https://t.co/eanl9YSC52
— 𝕬𝖑𝖊𝖝 💎 (@r8dr4lfe75) August 14, 2024
This is bad news, and bad for the Biden administration. It happened on their watch.
As always with breaking news, things may change and we'll keep you posted if and when they do.
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