NPD Shuts Down recordscheck.net After Massive Data Breach Exposing 272M Americans
National Public Data (NPD) has announced it will shut down recordscheck.net in the coming week. This decision follows a massive data breach that exposed sensitive information of hundreds of millions of Americans. The breach, which occurred in December 2023, remained undetected until August 2024.
In April 2024, a cybercriminal known as USDoD started selling data stolen from NPD. The exposed archive, 'members.zip', contained source code and plain text credentials for recordscheck.net. A leak in July 2024 revealed names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of over 272 million people, including deceased individuals.
NPD acknowledged the intrusion on August 12, 2024. The breach occurred at sister property recordscheck.net, which was hosting an archive with usernames and passwords for its administrator. Strikingly, these passwords matched credentials exposed in previous breaches involving NPD's founder, Salvatore 'Sal' Verini. ReviverSoft, the company that developed recordscheck.net, has not yet commented on the matter.
To protect themselves, Americans are advised to freeze their credit files at major consumer reporting bureaus. NPD's ceasing of recordscheck.net operations is expected to mitigate further risks. The full extent of the breach's impact remains to be seen, and investigations are ongoing.
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