Zack Whittaker on Nostr: Data breaches of this (alleged) size and magnitude are always going to raise ...

Data breaches of this (alleged) size and magnitude are always going to raise eyebrows, spark headlines and get people talking. Some online said that portions of the data appeared real.

In the case of National Public Data, TechCrunch set out to verify the leaked data like any other story. We handed over the names of eight people, who gave us permission to search for their data, to the hacker advertising the leak. None of the eight people had any data match in leaked data set when we checked.