You may have been one of the hundreds of millions of people whose highly sensitive personal information — including full names, phone numbers, emails, address histories, and Social Security numbers — was compromised when a South Florida data broker was hit last August by a cyberattack.
Initial reports claimed, erroneously, that 2.9 billion people had been victims of the massive breach. The stolen database in fact contained personal data of somewhere between 130 million and 170 million people across the US, UK, and Canada, according to security experts. The incident was extensive enough to now rank as the 12th-largest data breach in history, although the biggest of all-time remains a 2013 breach of 3 million Yahoo! user accounts.
