Michael Kan reports:
National Public Data, a website infamous for its role in leaking millions of Social Security numbers last year, has returned with the ability to look up anyone’s personal information.
The site shut down in December amid a wave of lawsuits against parent company Jericho Pictures after a breach exposed an estimated 272 million unique SSNs and 600 million phone numbers. Since then, the site has been relatively dormant. But today, we spotted the nationalpublicdata.com domain springing back to life with a new interface.
Read more at PC Magazine, and kudos to Michael Kan for calling attention to this.
To opt out, follow the site’s instructions at https://nationalpublicdata.com/optout.html.
I had opted out of the original National Public Data after their devastating breach last year, so I was curious whether my data would show up now. When I ran a profile search on myself, there was no entry, so if you had opted out of NPD in the past, you may still be opted out, but I would encourage everyone to check and opt out if you are not already opted out.