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   Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 03:13:12 JST Matt Hamilton

   I've been analyzing the public NPD data leak. Not *all* of it, only the most public ~277GB (uncompressed) corpus: https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-3-billion-people-national-public-data-breach/

   Corporate media headlines said 2.9, 2.7 billion, "every American", etc, which raised questions in threads about it: https://noauthority.social/@ned/112962645178289749

   Troy Hunt estimated ~899M unique SSNs, though I'm curious if his "100M samples" were random or sequential because I've noticed formatting differences between sections of the corpus, indicating different origins.

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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 03:13:12 JST Matt Hamilton

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     On to some observations about this corpus that I can make with a high degree of confidence:

     * The corpus does NOT contain 2.9 or 2.7 billion people.
     * "Every American" is NOT present in the corpus.
     * The corpus does contain accurate information about many Americans.
     * The corpus does contain accurate information about deceased Americans.

     Not that anyone here would ask, but like Troy, I'm not a databroker or your personal lookup service.

     These posts are purely informational.

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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 03:27:57 JST Sick Sun

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     • Quoth The Raven
     @Jagahati @eriner they've been working on one since the obama administration.
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     Quoth The Raven (jagahati@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 03:27:58 JST Quoth The Raven

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     @eriner I can’t help but think that this “Leak” will be part of a push to institute a new “Smart” ID system since we can no long trust SSN’s.

     Just waiting on that show to drop.

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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 03:27:59 JST Matt Hamilton

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     I'll post an approximate count of total unique SSNs in this corpus when I have it.

     I'd like to do some fraud analysis to determine if/how many "hot" SSNs may be being fraudulently abused by what appear to be multiple people. However his will be tricky because of recycled numbers, name changes, etc, so I'll have to experiment a bit and see how feasible this is. Processing "big data" is time consuming no matter how efficient you are.