Today journalist Brian Krebs released an article about the recent (sort of) compromise of National Public Data. Previously, National Public Data was (sort of) compromised which resulted in the theft of billions of records on individuals residing in the United States.

The drama update:
National Public Data owns a sub-company named RecordsCheck dot net. A customer of RecordsCheck dot net (later unveiled to be a law enforcement officer) was a victim of Information Stealer malware (e.g. Redline, Formbook, Lumma, etc). The malware stole login credentials to RecordsCheck for the law enforcement officer which allowed Threat Actors access to RecordsCheck with essentially infinite credits for searches. The Threat Actor(s) then subsequently began dumping as much data as possible.

The Brian Krebs plot twist:
Brian Krebs discovered that previously RecordsCheck publicly exposed a file on their website noscriptd: "members dot zip". This zip file contained the username and password for every customer on their platform (and supposedly other entities owned by National Public Data) in a plain text file. Krebs discovered that by default, each customer is assigned a 6-character password. As of a result of this accidental exposure, RecordsCheck instructed customers to change their default 6-character password. It turns out many DID NOT change their default assigned 6-character password.

More information on the file exposure, back story, discovery, etc. Can be found on Brian Kreb's article here: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/national-public-data-published-its-own-passwords/

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🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — Initial reports indicate that there was an explosion of a number of communications devices among Hezbollah elements.

Large number of injuries were recorded.

#BREAKING

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🇮🇱l🇱🇧 Sky News in Arabic quoting a source in the Israeli army leadership:

- The Mossad placed explosives into the batteries of the walkie-talkies, detonating them by raising the temperature of the batteries.

- They used PETN, which is stable rather than other materials for this operation

- The introduction of the material was carried out even before the devices came into the hands of Hezbullah.

(Which means the supply chain was penetrated)