National Data Breach 2024 News. Hackers may have gained access to the private information of millions of people from a background check.  — more than 1,500 data breaches have occurred in the first half of 2024, impacting about 1 billion people, according to the identity theft resource center.

 — according to the lawsuit filed by christopher hofmann, a cyber criminal group called usdod has posted a database containing the private data of 2.9 billion u.s.  — nearly 3 billion records were impacted.