Breaking: Hackers Claim to Have Stolen EVERY American's Social Security Number

Amy Curtis | 4:45 PM on August 14, 2024

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

The Biden Harris regime is TOTALLY incompetent. Run by stupid people. This should NEVER happen. pic.twitter.com/RvejTFYXV6
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 14, 2024