- iAmTheTot ( @iAmTheTot@kbin.social ) 49•6 months ago
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.
- Melkath ( @Melkath@kbin.social ) 29•6 months ago
To collaborate more effectively with the NSA and CIA.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English4•6 months ago
Antifraud
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English3•6 months ago
It could be worse, companies could be asking for phones and then treating them as a SSN. Oh wait…
- Melkath ( @Melkath@kbin.social ) 34•6 months ago
I have been informed my SSN, DOB, and payment information have been “compromised” at least 50 times in my life.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English1•6 months ago
Just keep your credit frozen
- Tire ( @Tire@lemmy.ml ) 24•6 months ago
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.
- ryannathans ( @ryannathans@aussie.zone ) 8•6 months ago
Isn’t 70 million like 1/4 anyway?
- wagoner ( @wagoner@infosec.pub ) 5•6 months ago
This is brilliant. The government could put out a searchable database.
- Imprint9816 ( @Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•6 months ago
You first. Feel free to post it here.
- The Doctor ( @drwho@beehaw.org ) English20•6 months ago
I have so much “free credit monitoring” from data breaches, I could leave it to my grandkids and they’d be set for life.
- penquin ( @penquin@lemm.ee ) 17•6 months ago
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.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English13•6 months ago
I think the problem is there isn’t any law protecting your data
- penquin ( @penquin@lemm.ee ) 10•6 months ago
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.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English3•6 months ago
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
- penquin ( @penquin@lemm.ee ) 1•6 months ago
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.
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 10•6 months ago
Compensations should be paid out, watch how security grows
- ares35 ( @ares35@kbin.social ) 8•6 months ago
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.
- onlinepersona ( @onlinepersona@programming.dev ) English7•6 months ago
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?
- M. Orange ( @miracleorange@beehaw.org ) 7•6 months ago
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).
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) 5•6 months ago
whoopsie doopsie!
ssns are probably useless by this point. cant wait for these people to leak our biometric data next, so we cant even change our ‘passwords’ anymore.
- sexy_peach ( @sexy_peach@feddit.de ) English5•6 months ago
Will there be consequences??
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English3•6 months ago
Everyone’s data is now public knowledge