16 Million Social Security Numbers Disclosed in a Cybercrime Forum
Social Security Numbers (SSNs) are nine-digit numbers issued to U.S. citizens by the Social Security Administration of the United States government. In the course of our routine dark web monitoring, we discovered 16 million SSN data disclosed on a cybercrime forum by a Russian-speaking threat actor. The data has been allegedly collected over a period of two years, from 2018 to 2020. An SSN does not contain a biometric identifier, thereby making it easier for a person with malicious intent to misuse the information. The risk of identity theft is a primary concern associated with the leak of these
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