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Every American's Social Security number, address may have been stolen in hack (www.fox5dc.com)
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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

SSN isn't even meant to be used to verify identity, really. It's just supposed to be used to track people paying into the social security system. Somehow it got tied up in identity verification even though all it is is some essentially random number.