Bill Gates’s social security number, address, credit report and more… published by hackers

Bill Gates is the latest celebrity to have had his personal information published on a website that has exposed the social security numbers, addresses and personal financial information of a number of people in the public eye.

As with the leak earlier this week of personal data belonging to – amongst others – the likes of Kim Kardashian, Michelle Obama, and Beyoncé, it appears that the private information has been sourced from a trio of credit reporting companies – Experian, Equifax and TransUnion…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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