Brazilian police arrested the hacker who stole everyone’s SSN

The Federal Police of Brazil announced the apprehension of the hacker linked to a breach that leaked 2.9 cardinal records that included delicate idiosyncratic information, including immoderate Social Security numbers. The information from that hack, which came to airy in August, was enactment for merchantability connected the acheronian web successful April by an entity identifying themselves arsenic USDoD.

As pointed retired by Bleeping Computer, according to a instrumentality translation of the department’s property release, the hacker was linked to “two publications selling” national constabulary data. The hacker besides boasted of disclosing the idiosyncratic information of 80,000 members of the FBI’s InfraGard program, the section said.

Security researchers astatine Atlas person created a instrumentality to hunt the leaked records and told PCMag that the leak contains astir 272 cardinal unsocial SSNs, on with arsenic galore arsenic 600 cardinal telephone numbers. National Public Data and its genitor company, Jerico Pictures, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month, facing a flood of lawsuits and imaginable penalties implicit the incident.

“The idiosyncratic nether probe indispensable reply for the transgression of hacking into a machine device, qualified by obtaining information, with an summation successful the condemnation for the commercialization of the information obtained,” according to the translation. The cognition to apprehension the hacker was called “Operation Data Breach.”

The national constabulary says it volition proceed to analyse if the hacker made immoderate different breaches.