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As BleepingComputer reports, a hacking forum lit up when a user claimed to have access to a huge cache of documents gleaned from data brokerage National Public Data.

Though it doesn't share its methodology on its website, NPD is believed to scrape its data from publicly available records to create individual user profiles generally used by private investigators or in background or criminal records checks.

The hack reportedly doesn't just affect people in the US. The 2.9 billion files are also said to contain personal information for people in the United Kingdom and Canada as well.

When the alleged NPD hack was first posted to these forums back in April, the person selling the cache for a cool $3.5 million claimed it contained information on every person in all three countries. After that initial sale post earlier this year, others later posted portions of the cache for free on the hacker forum Breached likely greatly accelerating their dissemination online.

Along with containing tons and tons of records that link names to Social Security numbers and addresses, the unencrypted cache is also said to attribute potential aliases of individuals as well.

While Bleeping Computer was not able to confirm whether the breach truly did impact every person in the US, the UK, and Canada, its reporters did verify with some people whose names, Social Security numbers, and addresses were contained within it that they were correct. However, their current place of residence was out of date. Others they spoke to, however, said that their Social Security numbers were linked to people who were not them.

As Bleeping Computer notes, it's important to know that each "record" is associated with every address a person has lived at. If you've moved around a lot, that means your corresponding record from this breach could have multiple address records connected to your name.

A background check company called Jerico Pictures that's believed to conduct business under the National Public Data moniker has been hit with a class-action lawsuit over its alleged failure to protect all that data.

The company itself, meanwhile, has seemingly not responded to any requests for comment, though as the Los Angeles Times reports, it has been telling users that it has purged its entire database and is "investigating" the "third-party claims" about the breach.

Experts told the LA Times that in the case of suspicion of identifying data theft, the best course of action is to freeze your credit cards.


An enormous amount of Social Security numbers and other sensitive information for millions of people could be in the hands of a hacking group after a data breach and may have been released on an online marketplace, The Los Angeles Times reported this week.

The hacking group USDoD claimed it had allegedly stolen personal records of 2.9 billion people from National Public Data, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, reported by Bloomberg Law. The breach was believed to have happened in or around April 2024, according to the lawsuit.

Here's what to know about the alleged data breach.

The class-action law firm Schubert, Jonckheer & Kolbe said in a press release that the stolen file includes 277.1 gigabytes of data, and includes names, address histories, relatives and Social Security numbers dating back at least three decades.

According to a post from a cybersecurity expert on X, formerly Twitter, USDoD claims to be selling the 2.9 billion records for citizens of the U.S., U.K. and Canada on the dark web for $3.5 million.

Since the information was posted for sale in April, others have released different copies of the data, according to the cybersecurity and technology news site Bleeping Computer.

A hacker known as "Fenice" leaked the most complete version of the data for free on a forum in August, Bleeping Computer reported.

National Public Data is a Florida-based background check company operated by Jerico Pictures, Inc. USA TODAY has reached out to National Public Data for comment.

The company has not publicly confirmed a data breach, but The Los Angeles Times reported that it has been telling people who contacted via email that "we are aware of certain third-party claims about consumer data and are investigating these issues."

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Well it's at least more comforting if it's every single fucking person instead of just a few that I may be included in I guess....trying to find a bright side
 

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it is hilarious to me that Trump held another press conference to con people into carrying his stump speech again…because he won’t do rallies anymore I guess. And anything he could have gained from the free pub was immediately destroyed by Biden shambling out and calling him “Donald Dump”.

No more F’s to give
 
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So Kamala Harris has announced three major initiatives to help the working class in America, primarily with stemming the tide of rising housing costs and outrageous rent rates:

1.) The construction of 3 million homes at the state and local level across the United States, with regulations to ensure corporations and slum lords are disenfranchised from purchasing these properties.

2.) A one-time $25k government rebate to first-time buyers to help with down-payment for properties.

3.) The re-initiation and expansion of two major tax credit programs for the middle class, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Child Tax Credit.
 
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Former New York Rep. George Santos is expected to plead guilty Monday to federal charges relating to fraudulent activity during his 2022 midterm campaign, according to multiple sources familiar with the deal.

Santos, who was expelled from the House last year, previously pleaded not guilty to 23 federal charges, including allegations of fraud related to Covid-19 unemployment benefits, misusing campaign funds and lying about his personal finances on House disclosure reports.
 

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Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday declined to let the Biden administration enforce portions of a new rule that includes protections from discrimination for transgender students under Title IX while legal proceedings continue.

The high court left intact two separate orders from federal courts in Kentucky and Louisiana, which blocked the Department of Education from enforcing the entirety of the rule across 10 states. The Justice Department had asked the Supreme Court to put part of the decisions on hold, but it declined the requests.

Four of the nine justices would have let part of the rules take effect, according to the order, but all members of the court agreed that the key disputed changes, including the new definition of "sex discrimination" to include "gender identity" and the restrictions on same-sex spaces, could remain blocked.

"[A]ll Members of the Court today accept that the plaintiffs were entitled to preliminary injunctive relief as to three provisions of the rule, including the central provision that newly defines sex discrimination to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity," the Supreme Court said in its unsigned opinion.

The measure at issue in the disputes was announced by the Biden administration in April and expanded Title IX's protections to LGBTQ students. The landmark 50-year-old law prohibits education entities that receive federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex. The rule took effect Aug. 1, but only in less than half of the states. Federal judges have temporarily blocked it in 26 states as a result of legal challenges.

The court fights before the Supreme Court involved two groups of states that challenged three provisions of the rule: The first recognizes that Title IX's prohibition on sex discrimination covers gender identity; the second broadens the definition of "hostile-environment harassment" to include harassment based on gender identity; and the third clarifies that a school violates Title IX when it prohibits transgender students from using restrooms and other facilities consistent with their gender identity.

One case was brought by four states, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, and Idaho, as well as the Louisiana Department of Education. The second was filed by six states, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, and West Virginia.

In June, federal district courts in Louisiana and Kentucky found the states were likely to succeed in their cases and blocked enforcement of the entire rule across the 10 states involved in the litigation. The Biden administration asked federal appeals courts in both cases to allow it to temporarily enforce part of the rule — the provisions that were not challenged — but each declined the requests in divided decisions.

The Supreme Court, in response to the government's argument that the three provisions should be severed, allowing the other unchallenged parts of the rule to go into effect, agreed with the lower courts that "the new definition of sex discrimination is intertwined with and affects many other provisions of the new rule," and therefore, the three provisions "are not readily severable from the remaining provisions." It said that the government did not provide "a sufficient basis to disturb the lower courts' interim conclusions" and had not "adequately identified which particular provisions, if any, are sufficiently independent of the enjoined definitional provision and thus might be able to remain in effect."

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by the liberals on the court, Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, and by conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, wrote in her partial dissent, "By blocking the Government from enforcing scores of regulations that respondents never challenged and that bear no apparent relationship to respondents' alleged injuries, the lower courts went beyond their authority to remedy the discrete harms alleged here." She predicted the "injunctions this Court leaves in place will burden the Government more than necessary."

She noted that the unchallenged provisions included "'reasonable modifications'" that would allow new mothers to breastfeed or express breast milk or pregnant students to attend to health needs of their pregnancies. Another provision would prevent schools from making preemployment inquiries about an applicant's marital status. These provisions, Sotomayor said, "do not reference gender identity discrimination or hostile environment harassment." Therefore, she wrote, blocking the government from enforcing any other part of the rule "needlessly impairs the Government from enforcing Title IX and deprives potential claimants of protections against forms of sex discrimination not at issue in respondents' suit."

In seeking emergency relief from the Supreme Court, the Justice Department argued that the district court's injunctions are "grossly overbroad" because they block "dozens" of the rule's provisions that weren't challenged by the states, and that the lower court therefore did not find were likely unlawful.

"The district court's injunction would block the department from implementing dozens of provisions of an important rule effectuating Title IX, a vital civil rights law protecting millions of students against sex discrimination," Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote in both requests.

She said the April 2024 rule is an "omnibus" measure, and most of it does not address gender identity. Instead, its provisions include clarifications to definitions of more than a dozen terms, including "complaint," "elementary school" and "postsecondary institution."

While acknowledging the challenges to federal regulations before they're enforced are common, she accused lower courts of taking a "blunderbuss approach" to preliminary relief in these cases.

"The harm is particularly acute here because Title IX is one of the core federal civil rights statutes that guarantees nondiscrimination in the nation's education system," Prelogar wrote. "If the court does not grant the requested stay, the department will be unable to vindicate the critical protections of that statute in a wide swath of the country."

But in the challenge from Louisiana involving the four states, Republican officials told the Supreme Court in a filing that the Biden administration's rule would "radically impact" schools, teachers and families.

They claimed the Education Department took Title IX and its "promise of equal educational opportunities for both sexes and transformed it into a 423-page mandate" that requires covered entities to allow male students in girls' bathrooms, locker rooms and other facilities, and teachers and students to use a transgender individual's preferred pronouns.

"The Department cannot seriously contest that a partial stay would sow widespread confusion. Teachers would only have days, at most, before school starts, to understand their obligations under the judicially blue-penciled rule," the Republican attorneys general wrote. "And that uncertainty and harm would equally affect parents and students."

They said there is uncertainty about how a practically blocked rule would operate, leaving parents unable to make decisions about whether to send their children to public school.

In a separate filing in the Kentucky case, officials from the six states accused the Biden administration of forcing schools to spend "immense sums" to comply with the new rule in just three months.

They warned the court not to "unleash eleventh-hour havoc — and needless diversion of valuable resources — on schools, students, and sovereign states."

In addition to the Louisiana and Kentucky cases, a number of other challenges to the Biden administration's Title IX rule are pending in the lower courts.

The Education Department's Title IX overhaul comes amid a swell of laws enacted in Republican-led states in recent years that are aimed at transgender youth. More than 20 states restrict treatments like puberty-blocking drugs, hormone therapy or surgeries for minors experiencing gender dysphoria. The constitutionality of one of those laws, from Tennessee, will be reviewed by the Supreme Court in the fall.

At least 11 states have laws on the books that bar transgender people from using bathrooms and other facilities consistent with their gender identity in schools, and 25 states prohibit transgender girls from competing on their schools' female sports teams.
 

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George Santos, the disgraced former Republican congressman from New York whose penchant for lying led to one of the oddest sideshows in modern U.S. politics, pleaded guilty on Monday to aggravated identity theft and wire fraud.

While Mr. Santos’s plea will allow him to avoid a trial on a total of nearly two dozen charges — including wire fraud, money laundering and stealing public funds — it all but ensures he will face at least two years in prison. The trial was set to begin next month.
 

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The US government has concluded the Iranian government is behind the hack and leak operation targeting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and also attempted to target the Biden-Harris campaign, the FBI and other US intelligence agencies said Monday.

The FBI in recent days briefed the former president on their preliminary findings, after news organizations reported receiving documents believed to have come from an account belonging to a senior Trump campaign official. Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has said the hackers were unsuccessful in their attempts against the Biden-Harris campaign.

The investigation marks the clearest sign of the efforts by Iran, and other countries, to try to influence the 2024 election, US officials believe.
 
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Biden fucking cooked tonight with his speech at the DNC.
 
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Former New York Rep. George Santos is expected to plead guilty Monday to federal charges relating to fraudulent activity during his 2022 midterm campaign, according to multiple sources familiar with the deal.

Santos, who was expelled from the House last year, previously pleaded not guilty to 23 federal charges, including allegations of fraud related to Covid-19 unemployment benefits, misusing campaign funds and lying about his personal finances on House disclosure reports.
How in the hell did he get elected in the u.s. ? I seen this last year, how did the due diligence and those who check into him not notice this. Wouldn't happen in the u.k. Man's a con artist to the maximum.
 

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George Santos should be put in Jail along with Wonald Chump and his goon squad. Democratic voters plus moderate republicans make sure that the idiotic moron never gets to be president again.
 

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Btw, some highlights from Day 1 of the DNC











 

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President Biden approved in March a highly classified nuclear strategic plan for the United States that, for the first time, reorients America’s deterrent strategy to focus on China’s rapid expansion in its nuclear arsenal.

The shift comes as the Pentagon believes China’s stockpiles will rival the size and diversity of the United States’ and Russia’s over the next decade.

The White House never announced that Mr. Biden had approved the revised strategy, called the “Nuclear Employment Guidance,” which also seeks, for the first time, to prepare the United States for possible coordinated nuclear challenges from China, Russia and North Korea. The document, updated every four years or so, is so highly classified that there are no electronic copies, only a small number of hard copies distributed to a few national security officials and Pentagon commanders.

But in recent speeches, two senior administration officials were allowed to allude to the change — in carefully constrained, single sentences — ahead of a more detailed, unclassified notification to Congress expected before Mr. Biden leaves office.
 

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Man is promoting his beer by getting drunk and sounding like every racist uncle you've ever had
 
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