How to Find Out if Your Social Security Number Was Included in Massive Data Breach

Last week’s staggering data breach at National Public Data put personal data, including the Social Security numbers, of millions of Americans in the hands of cybercriminals. Data reaching back at least three decades is said to be included in the breach—and the inclusion of Social Security numbers has raised a number of concerns among people. Curious if you were affected? Here’s how to find out.

Reporting by Chris Morris

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[notw]

I am NOT buying this "Enter your info" into our site stuff. Just monitor your accounts.

[DeOmnibusDubitandum]

Can anyone sue this company (with the deceptively public name) for taking so long to acknowledge this, please? They deserve to be out of business. Incidentally, when will we take data privacy seriously in the US of A?

[TimC]

Once my identity is stolen I will be dropping off the grid. Eff em.

[orazor]

Sue the shit out of this company. Hold the incompetent security personnel accountable, who, from my experience, are the most unqualified troglodytes in the IT field, with qualifications that go little beyond cut-and-paste, coupled with exposure to two seasons of Mr. Robot!

[RiteOn]

This is a push to get customers for pentester . . . don't fall.

[dianarockwell]

I must be strange, because the first thing I check every morning is credit karma and then I check my bank accounts. I have a spreadsheet which checks all of my expenses and deposits, and it has to balance with that spreadsheet every day.

[SandiSays]

Got an alert that my SSN was found on the dark web

[jimcollins]

They every ssn ever issued. Yes, yours is included

[deanjohanning]

Sounds like liberal logic to me let me punch in my social security number to find out if somebody stole my Social Security number so then you'll have my social security number and you can sell it to the next guy

[cxa]

You already stole everything, anyway.

[JTSA]

Husband's was, mine wasn't. He already had fraud alerts set up.