National Public Data
133 957 569 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2024-04-09.
What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
In April 2024, a large trove of data made headlines as having exposed "3 billion people" due to a breach of the National Public Data background check service. The initial corpus of data released in the breach contained billions of rows of personal information, including US social security numbers. Further partial data sets were later released including extensive personal information and 134M unique email addresses, although the origin and accuracy of the data remains in question. This breach has been flagged as "unverified" and a full description of the incident is in the link above.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Dates of birth
- Email addresses
- Genders
- Government issued IDs
- Names
- Phone numbers
- Physical addresses
How HIBP qualifies it
- HIBP could not verify that the data came from this service.
HIBP names no domain for this breach.
Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC