Data of millions of US-citizens available in the internet

Sensitive data of 80 million US households are unprotected available in the internet. The data are stored on an openly accessible database whose owner is unknown.

Affected are 65 % of all US households, in numbers, 80 million households. The database includes detailed information regarding the number of persons living in a household, their names, marital status, age, date of birth, residential address including GPS data for localization and household income.

The number of affected US-citizens cannot be named due to the fact, that in one household can live a different amount of people. Because of this it is possible that over 100 million people are affected.

On the basis of the accessible data an identification of individuals is easily possible because hackers or thefts of identity can find out the mailaddresses and connect this information with free accessible information from e.g. social media.

Regarding the owner of the database no information is known. It is presumed that it is a company from the health or insurance sector.

The owner need to be find, otherwise the leak cannot be closed.