Though it has been dormant for most of the year, the website National Public Data has reemerged with new owners.

As reported by PCMag, the website was well known for a major data breach that occurred last year in which millions of Social Security numbers were leaked online, resulting in a barrage of lawsuits against the former site owners, Jericho Pictures.

The breach exposed at least 272 million Social Security numbers and 600 million phone numbers and after the lawsuits were filed, the site went dormant until recently when it went live again as a people finder site.

Although there is nearly no information about the new owners of the domain aside from it being registered to a Florida-based VPN service called “Perfect Privacy,” it's acting as a free search engine to let people search fo

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