The Social Security number of every American may have been stolen in a huge computer hack, and a Florida company is at the center of it , according to out sister station Action News JAX .
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The breach is apparently the work of a hacking group called USDOD. The group claims to have stolen the information from a Coral Gables, Florida-based company called National Public Data, which collects personal information for employer background checks.
“The fact that someone could pull out anything in my name and get into everything, including my financial, my job, I mean my social security number is linked to everything. So that makes me super nervous,” consumer Chelsea Whitten told Action News Jax Thursday morning.
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This marks just the latest massive cyberattack in what seems to be a troubling trend of major security breaches.
“My husband just got something in the mail the other day that somebody had hacked his insurance company’s system,” Whitten said.