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catculation@lemmy.zip to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Scary AT&T breach leaks up to 70 million Social Security numbers to the dark web

www.macworld.com

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Scary AT&T breach leaks up to 70 million Social Security numbers to the dark web

www.macworld.com

catculation@lemmy.zip to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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Data breach occurred two weeks ago.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13810367

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    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.

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      Isn’t 70 million like 1/4 anyway?

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        Between this Anthem, Target, and OPM, it seems likely that most Americans have their SSN out there for criminals to buy.

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      This is brilliant. The government could put out a searchable database.

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      You first. Feel free to post it here.

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