🚨 Hackers May Have Stolen Billions of Social Security Numbers — Here’s How to Lock Down Your Data

A hacking group known as USDoD claims to have stolen private data from millions of Americans, including their Social Security numbers, according to reports.

If this is the first time you’re hearing about it, welcome to the club. So were we. The hack reportedly occurred in April, but it’s just now coming to light, thanks to a class action complaint against National Public Data, the background check company USDoD allegedly stole all the data from, Bloomberg Law reports.

This could go down as one of the biggest hacks of private data, ever. Not good.

Here are some actions things we suggest you take ASAP:

🧊 Look into freezing your credit. It won’t affect your credit score and you’d be protected against people seeing sensitive information.

🕵️ Research an identity theft protection service. These services can help you monitor your credit activity in real time so you don’t have to stress about it every single second. Here are our picks for the best ones right now.

👀 Stay vigilant! We'll be keeping up with this news on Money.com over the next few weeks, to see how things shake out. If you aren’t already, be sure to subscribe to our free newsletter, Daily Money, for all the latest reporting.