Data Breach Exposes 2.9 Billion Personal Information Records

National Public Data ("NPD"), a Florida-based background-check company, per their website, “[NPD obtains] information from various public record databases, court records, state and national databases, and other repositories nationwide.”

A complaint filed in the U.S. District Court alleges that NPD was hit by a data breach in or around April 2024. [i] :

• The company had sensitive info breached, such as full names; current and past addresses spanning at least the last three decades; Social Security numbers; info about parents, siblings, and other relatives; and other personal info.
• The company “scraped” this info from non-public sources. This info was collected without the consent of the person who filed the complaint and the billions of others who might qualify to join in the class action complaint.
• The company “assumed legal and equitable duties to those individuals to protect and safeguard that information from unauthorized access and intrusion.”