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SSN Stolen in NationalPublicData.com breach but other personal information is incorrect I see many people who have the same problem here with this, and no, it's not only the last 4 digits that match—it's the whole thing (I confirmed it). Could this mean someone stole my SSN and is using it, or could it mean that the hacker made a mistake with the leaked database that mixed things up? I checked my credit and it looks good to me, nothing unusual.

NPD Data Breach Notification - 1 year old's SSN I received a notification from my Experian Identityworks service that my 1 year old child's SSN was leaked to the dark web through the nationalpublicdata.com breach. In reviewing the alert another adult's information appears associated with my child's SSN and the name/address provided is not my child's. My concerns are: 1. I have never entered my child's SSN anywhere except while filing for taxes earlier this year through Turbotax. I am not sure how NPD even had this information? Does this indicate someone fraudulently using the child's information? 2. Why is another individual's information associated with my child's SSN? Does this mean someone was using this SSN. I am working on checking if there are credit reports (very annoying to accomplish because unlike adults who can check easily online through annualcreditreport and the Big 3 individual credit reporting websites, for children there is paperwork/proof of identity required), but worried if because someone else's information is attached to this SSN it has been used this past year by someone else. 3. Has anyone checked with Experian or other identity monitoring services about why these matches are showing up with other individual's information? Does it indicate identity theft use of the full SSN or a bad match of the last 4 digits? 4. I am concerned about sending a packet of literally all of my child and my PII to prove relationship to the 3 credit bureaus to freeze the credit reports, specially through USPS. Any recommendations?

ID notify said a dead old man is using my (young female) SSN I've used IDnotify for years and finally got an alert that's concerning, but I'm not sure how worried I have to be. The alert says this old dead man who lives a dozen states away (died Aug 12) was connected to my SSN on nationalpublicdata.com on Aug 20. I do have freezes on all three major credit bureaus. And typically you hear of the dead person's SSN being stolen, not a living person's social being attached to a dead man. So I'm not sure what to make of this. Do I need to panic about this? What else should I do? I can't find reliable information about where I would even report it (SSA? IRS?)

SSN Stolen in NationalPublicData.com breach but other personal information is incorrect? I got an alert from my ID monitoring service that says my SSN was stolen. When reviewing the data that was stolen, it appears my SSN potentially was taken, but the other details associated with it are incorrect. Like a completely different name and address. Not sure what this means... I checked my credit report and don't see anything abnormal and I will be freezing my credit with the 3 unions.

SSN found on the dark web Hello everyone, I was part of the big government data leak years ago and as a result I have my myidcare through OPM. I received a notice that my ssn was found on the "dark web" and the breach site was nationalpublicdata.com. When I log in it has the last 4 of my ssn but the name/address/telephone number belongs to someone else. 1. What does it mean that there is a different name/address/telephone number on the myidcare alert? When I called them they said that things on the "dark web" are jumbled because people try to match together different names/ssn, etc 2. The myidcare people recommended placing a fraud alert through Experian, a credit lock with the 3 main credit agencies, and checking my credit reports for suspicious activity. I wanted to know if people had any other recommendations. 3. How serious of a threat is this to my identify? This seems to be linked to the massive data leak that occurred recently so I assume its not specific to me and I have heard the "dark web" stuff is often times over-blown as a way to get people to pay for extra services (although myidcare service is free and not asking for anything extra) Thank you everyone for your help!