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Welcome to the Fraudology Podcast with Karisse Hendrick. In this episode, Karisse delves into the recent headline-grabbing data breach involving nearly 2.9 billion Social Security records. While initial reports painted a dire picture, Karisse breaks down the true scope of the breach and its implications, clarifying that the actual number of unique Social Security numbers compromised is much lower. She shares insights from experts, including reporting by Brian Krebs, and sheds light on how data brokers like nationalpublicdata.com obtain and mishandle such sensitive information. Tune in to understand the broader impact of this breach on data privacy and fraud prevention.

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Related Articles:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/nationalpublicdata-com-hack-exposes-a-nations-data/

https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-3-billion-people-national-public-data-breach/?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/national-public-data-published-its-own-passwords/

Fraudology is hosted by Karisse Hendrick, a fraud fighter with decades of experience advising hundreds of the biggest ecommerce companies in the world on fraud, chargebacks, and other forms of abuse impacting a company's bottom line.

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She brings her experience, expertise, and extensive network of experts to this podcast weekly, on Tuesdays.