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a major hack followed by a leak means
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some of your most sensitive personal
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information may already be exposed and
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we are talking about social security
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numbers and more Fox 5's joshu Rosenthal
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tonight in Northwest with what you need
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know your social security number my
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social security number all of our social
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security numbers potentially hacked is
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this legit that every American's social
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security number may may be out there
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yeah it's it's very possible here's the
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deal a group of hackers reportedly
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claims to have stolen nearly three
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billion records of personal information
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including names Social Security numbers
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and addresses then it was all leaked
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it's believed the information comes from
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a business called national public data
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which according to its website is used
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by other companies to obtain criminal
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records background checks and more I
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think people should be very upset about
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they should ask why is this company you
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know why do they have all of that
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information and when they had it who was
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making sure that they were protecting it
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Lou raban CEO of cyber defense group
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told us this is a big deal and Americans
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should be concerned however he also
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acknowledged that because this type of
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thing seems to happen so frequently a
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lot of people including some we talked
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to Wednesday in Northwest have what
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raban refers to as breach fatigue I
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tried to weak on C but it's really
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difficult nowadays like it's impossible
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you kind of feel like your information's
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already out there yeah I think
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so we did reach out to that company
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national public data looking for comment
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but so far we've yet to hear back guys
