Major 'National Public Data' Leak Worse Than Expected With Passwords Stored in Plain Text

Earlier this month, data broker National Public Data (NPD) announced that there had been a major data breach that saw hackers obtain millions of names, email addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, and mailing addresses stored in its database. NPD is a company that does employee background checks, aggregating public data from numerous sources and selling it. NPD's security was clearly lacking to allow for the breach in the first place, but a new report from KrebsOnSecurity suggests th...