Brazilian police arrested the hacker who stole everyone’s SSN

The Federal Police of Brazil proclaimd the arrest of the hacker joined to a baccomplish that leaked 2.9 billion write downs that integrated comfervent personal adviseation, including some Social Security numbers. The data from that hack, which came to airy in August, was put for sale on the gloomy web in April by an entity rerepairing themselves as USDoD.

As pointed out by Bleeping Computer, according to a machine translation of the department’s press free, the hacker was joined to “two accessibleations selling” federal police data. The hacker also boasted of disclosing the personal data of 80,000 members of the FBI’s InfraGard program, the department shelp.

Security researchers at Atlas have originated a tool to search the leaked write downs and tanciaccess PCMag that the leak comprises about 272 million exceptional SSNs, aextfinished with as many as 600 million phone numbers. National Public Data and its parent company, Jerico Pictures, filed for Chapter 11 prohibitkruptcy earlier this month, facing a flood of legal cases and potential penalties over the incident.

“The person under depictateigation must answer for the crime of unpermitd access into a computer device, qualified by geting adviseation, with an incrrelieve in the sentence for the commercialization of the data geted,” according to the translation. The operation to arrest the hacker was called “Operation Data Baccomplish.”

The federal police says it will persist to depictateigate if the hacker made any other baccomplishes.