2.9 Billion records/identities were just compromised, including every American (probably) There's only 333 million Americans so the odds are great that we have had our information stolen and sold on the black market. Here's what to do about it.

Follow up video here: youtu.be/jNV-KCBf-us

FTC article about fraud alerts and credit freezes:
consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-know-about-credit-freezes-and-fraud-alerts

Please note: i misspoke in the opening line of the video. Obviously there aren't 2.9 billion Americans. The leak was apparently 2.9 billion records. I assume each adult working in the US could have multiple records. Also, the database could have kept records of deceased people conceivably. Also, the company that was hacked was used in the US, Canada, and the UK to make background checks happen so the number of records is not limited by the current population of the US. (people in the comments seem to think this is political in some way, I neither meant it to go that direction nor do I see political indicators in the articles I read)

Also at 1:00 in the video I edited the audio wrong so it gets super loud! So sorry about this especially to headphone users.

Finally, and hopefully my last error: I do some terrible mental math to calculate that the value of a persons private info is $1, but that's wrong since we are talking about 2.9 BILLION records, so the better math would be that each record was for sale for about $0.0012. Even if I had 10 records for sale in the database, I'd only be worth 1 penny, not 1 dollar. Sorry for the confusion and thanks for watching!

Other sources reporting on this:
- latimes.com/business/story/2024-08-13/hacker-claims-theft-of-every-american-social-security-number
- engadget.com/cybersecurity/hackers-may-have-leaked-the-social-security-numbers-of-every-american-150834276.html
- dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13745509/Hackers-stolen-Americans-Social-Security-numbers.html
- cbsnews.com/news/social-security-number-leak-npd-breach-what-to-know/
- news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/background-check-data-of-3-billion-stolen-in-breach-suit-says

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