Why exactly did a telecom company need SSNs anyway?
Edited to add, this was a rhetorical question and more a comment on the awful series of systems in the USA that leads a SSN to be used by telecom companies.
To collaborate more effectively with the NSA and CIA.
Antifraud
It could be worse, companies could be asking for phones and then treating them as a SSN. Oh wait…
I have been informed my SSN, DOB, and payment information have been “compromised” at least 50 times in my life.
Just keep your credit frozen
Fight Club had it backwards. Instead of attacking the banks to wipe out people’s credit someone should release everyone’s SSN. The mass fraud will make credit useless.
Isn’t 70 million like 1/4 anyway?
This is brilliant. The government could put out a searchable database.
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You first. Feel free to post it here.
I have so much “free credit monitoring” from data breaches, I could leave it to my grandkids and they’d be set for life.
Tried to delete my shit from their website, but they make it impossible to do so. I tried for about 20 minutes then eventually the site straight up refused to let me continue. I don’t even have AT&T anymore, I had their cellular back in 2013 and left them then, but the fuckers kept my info in their system this whole fucking time. No accountability for big corporations when they fuck up big like this. If it were one of us peasants, we would have been in prison for life.
I think the problem is there isn’t any law protecting your data
And that’s a huge problem. Only form of protection I have is freezing my credit with the three credit reporting assholes. I know it’s not much, but at least no one can apply for shit with my social.
It actually gives you quite a bit of protection. If you don’t have a open credit they can’t open cards in your name.
Just remember it is frozen
I do have 5 cards already, two cars and a mortgage. I just hope that whomever they call will ask for more info beside only the SSN. I have some companies nowadays like Amazon send me a text message for verification.
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and this is why i refused to give you my social back when i lived in your service area and had a land line installed.
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?
Basically. It wasn’t meant to act as an identification, but people kept using it that way (probably because every citizen gets one at birth, so it’s the easiest proof of citizenship).
Will there be consequences??
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Everyone’s data is now public knowledge
