Brazilian police have arrested a hacker who stole everyone’s SSN

Brazilian Federal Police announced the arrest of a hacker linked to a breach that leaked 2.9 billion records containing sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers. Data from that hack, which came to light in August, was sold on the dark web in April by an entity calling itself USDoD.

As shown by The Sleep Computeraccording to a machine translation of the department’s press release, the hacker was linked to “two books that sell” state police data. The hacker also bragged about exposing the personal information of 80,000 members of the FBI’s InfraGard program, the department said.

Security researchers at Atlas have developed a tool to search for leaked records and reports PCMag that the leak contained approximately 272 million unique SSNs, and up to 600 million phone numbers. National Public Data and its parent company, Jericho Pictures, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month, facing numerous lawsuits and potential penalties over the incident.

“The person under investigation must answer for the crime of computer hacking, which is qualified by obtaining information, and increasing the penalty for selling the obtained data,” according to the translation. The operation to arrest the hacker was called “Operation Data Breach.”

State police say they will continue to investigate whether the robber committed any other violations.