The 2024 US presidential election is entering its final stretch, which means state-backed hackers are slipping out of the shadows to meddle in their own special way. That includes Iran's APT42, a hacker group affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which Google's Threat Analysis Group says targeted nearly a dozen people associated with Donald Trump's and Joe Biden's (now Kamala Harris') campaigns. The rolling disaster that is the breach of data broker and background-check company National Public Data is just beginning. While the breach of the company happened months ago, the company only acknowledged it publicly on Monday after someone posted what they claimed was "2.9 billion records" of people in the US, UK, and Canada, including names, physical addresses, and Social Security numbers. Ongoing analysis of the data, however, shows the story is far messier--as are the risks.

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