Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of every American. Here's how to protect yourself
www.latimes.com
In an epic data breach, hackers claim to have taken 2.9 billion personal records from National Public Data. Most of the data are leaked online.
  • GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    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 😜

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 months ago

      Technically not place of birth, it’s the zip code of the address when the SSN was requested, but yeah, close enough for government work! ;)