▲ 31 ▼ National public data breach: 2.7bn records of US, Canadian, and UK citizens have been leaked (www.techrepublic.com) submitted 2 years ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml 13 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) claimed to have access to the personal data of 2.9 billion people from the U.S., U.K., and Canada How does that work, when the total population of those countries is less than 0.5 billion? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago As individuals will each have multiple records associated with them, one for each of their previous home addresses, the breach does not expose information about 2.7 billion different people. Furthermore, according to BleepingComputer, some impacted individuals have confirmed that the SSN associated with their info in the data dump is not correct. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago As individuals will each have multiple records associated with them, one for each of their previous home addresses, the breach does not expose information about 2.7 billion different people. Furthermore, according to BleepingComputer, some impacted individuals have confirmed that the SSN associated with their info in the data dump is not correct. permalink fedilink source parent