Background check company breached, nearly 3 billion exposed in data theft

You might be affected by one of the biggest data breaches ever and not even know it.A recent class action lawsuit filed against Jerico Pictures Inc., a background check company that does business under the name National Public Data, claims that the company was breached by hackers earlier this year.As a result, the lawsuit says, confidential data for 2.9 billion was exposed and stolen by a hacker group known as USDoD. SEE ALSO:Microsoft says CrowdStrike outage affected many more devices than