An unknown actor circulated a link on Ghostbin pointing to files shared on mega.nz containing 27.8 million records, including ten states. The files contain 42 fields, including address, phone, marital status, income, financial net worth, race, gender and religion. CSO confirmed that data belonging to select employees at IDG Communications, CSO’s publisher, was genuine. In late 2016, hacker DoubleFlag offered a similar-sounding database for sale, but no data was released at that time.”]