catculation@lemmy.zip to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agoScary AT&T breach leaks up to 70 million Social Security numbers to the dark webwww.macworld.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkScary AT&T breach leaks up to 70 million Social Security numbers to the dark webwww.macworld.comcatculation@lemmy.zip to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareonlinepersona@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoI keep reading “social security number”, but still don’t understand why it’s possible to steal a person’s identity with their SSN. Is that all that’s required for identification? Some number?
minus-squareAquila@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoGetting names, emails, addresses, etc is pretty available. If you can link those up + an SSN you can open accounts pretty easily
minus-squareonlinepersona@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoDamn… that seems like a pretty bad system. Have there not been attempts to remedy that? CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
I keep reading “social security number”, but still don’t understand why it’s possible to steal a person’s identity with their SSN. Is that all that’s required for identification? Some number?
Getting names, emails, addresses, etc is pretty available. If you can link those up + an SSN you can open accounts pretty easily
Damn… that seems like a pretty bad system. Have there not been attempts to remedy that?
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