About a month ago, an article showed up on USA Today. It was regarding a company called National Public Data, a company that helps companies provide background checks, which confirmed that it suffered a massive data breach involving Social Security numbers and other personal data on millions of Americans. it gave up around 2.9 billion records including names, addresses, Social Security numbers and relatives going back at least three decades; tell me that’s not scary!

One of our clients decided to see if he was listed. The article shared this link, which asks for very general information, pulls up anything that has your name on it over the course of just over 30 years, and you can check on those items individually to see if your information has been captured during one of those time periods.
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