Social Security Data Breach 2024. Photo by amelia holowaty krales / the verge. If your social security number was breached, the best thing to do is to freeze your credit files through creating an account with one of the three consumer credit reporting agencies:
2.9 billion people may have had social security numbers, other financial data compromised. Earlier this year, hackers stole nearly three billion records from the national public data (npd) and posted the stolen details on the dark web for everyone to see in.