Site Behind Major SSN Leak Returns With Detailed Data on Millions

Follow up to previous postsNational Public Data Published Its Own Passwords; Is Your SSN in the National Public Data Breach? Here’s How to Find Out; and How to Remove Your Profile From National Public Data; See also PC Mag – “National Public Data, a website infamous for its role in leaking millions of Social Security numbers last year, has returned with the ability to look up anyone’s personal information. The site shut down in December amid a wave of lawsuits against parent company Jericho Pictures after a breach exposed an estimated 272 million unique SSNs and 600 million phone numbers. Since then, the site has been relatively dormant. But today, we spotted the nationalpublicdata.com domain springing back to life with a new interface. It looks like the domain has changed hands: In a page about last year’s breach, the site’s new owners write: “Important Notice: Jerico Pictures, Inc., the Florida company that suffered a major data breach in 2024, no longer operates this site. We have zero affiliation with them. We’re keeping this page, originally posted by Jerico Pictures, Inc., intact so its history remains traceable.”

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