Data Breach: 2.9 Billion Social Security Numbers at risk

If the headline is so stupid I'm not going to bother reading the article associated with it.

 

An article claiming in its title that nearly 10x the population of the US had their SSNs stolen is a pretty stupid headline. I don't go for clickbait is all.

 

2.9 billion, but ssns only go to 999,999,999 (ie 1 billion minus 1)

Asserting 100 % of living us individuals have 4 ssns would get you to 1.3-1.4 bn, wheres the other half of that coming from???

Tbon3 makes a valid point, if an editor cant sanity check their headline, theyre definitionally clickbait and EVERYTHING they say is suspect


As far as "security" is concerned, yeah, there isnt anything new, data breaches are just going to escalate as time progresses, if you arent on top of it, youre living in the past, but that was true 10 years ago

 

I have 5 alerts on my file with phone numbers not associated to me of people using my ssn supposedly. I’m guessing it’s for work and they filling up my contributions to the gooberment.

2 months ago the SS office couldn’t verify who I was or my citizenship. that’s sorted out.

oh well not my problem. Let them pay my taxes.

but I watch my credit report like a hawk.

 

You must have me confused with somebody else. I didn't say anything about SSNs or population count.

 

Doesn’t matter how many ssn the guvment actually has on record as being issued. Numbers are being sold. The cartels have this down with the border jumpers. It is part of the coyote package. Another thing is everyone is assuming the guvment had actually counted everyone on the last censes. 2020 was the covid cluster. My household for one was never counted. We never filled anything out and nobody showed up at our gate to ask. I know of others that say the same thing. Remember folks the border was only officially closed for a short while during that time until corn pop took over and then boom.