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Every American's Social Security number, address may have been stolen in hack (www.fox5dc.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Take your social security number. Change the last number by one. Congrats, you have stolen someones number.

It isn't secure or random in any way. Infact, by doing the above you will have the number of a person born probably in the same hospital as you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's not true anymore. My kids have very different SSNs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are your kids twins?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

No, but born in the same city. They don't have a common prefix or anything like that.

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