Paywall removed: https://archive.is/T7xXg
Easy, just have such terrible credit that it’s basically worthless
Taps forehead
Every year for the past decade, we’ve had a major hack involving millions of American’s private info.
It’s getting impossible to remember I’m how many times Ive been on those lists.
Thank you Americans for providing yet another great example to point to, when arguing that holding private data centrally will inevitably lead to it being stolen.
If a vulnerability in a system exists, then eventually someone WILL try to exploit it.
I mean, it is a limited data set of less than a billion numbers…
001-01-0000 to 728-99-9999
The area number (001) and group number (01) are also known quantites, so you can limit that set down greatly. 729 to 999 are not in use for example.
You’re not wrong, but there are enough demographics encoded in one that they could probably match names to a lot of them, if they don’t already have them, with some brokered (or stolen) data
Not as much data encoded as I thought. Just place of birth, but still. If you are able to get these paired with data, this could be very bad.
Or very good, depending on your opinion of the system 😜
This could be very painful for a lot of Americans, but if it makes them overhaul the system, it might be worth it.
