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Data broker National Public Data files for bankruptcy following massive breach (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by BrikoX to c/databreaches

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Jerico Pictures, the data brokerage company operating as National Public Data, recently filed for bankruptcy in the Southern District of Florida. The organization was compromised by a cybercriminal group known as "USDoD," which listed a massive trove of personal information for sale on the dark web at the discounted price of $3.5 million.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Jerico Pictures listed its assets, which include $33,105 in a corporate bank account, two HP desktop PCs, an old ThinkPad laptop, and a few Dell servers."

Noice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised and concerned that a company with so little infrastructure was even allowed to hold onto so much public data in the first place, seems like they'd be fairly easy to compromise - which I guess is true curtosy of USDoD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I have a feeling there's plenty more services out there that just happen to be running on the old macbook in someone's closet waiting to be pwned

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

lawsuit dodge