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Five to privacy@lemmy.caEnglish • 11 months ago

Every American's Social Security number, address may have been stolen in hack

www.fox5dc.com

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Every American's Social Security number, address may have been stolen in hack

www.fox5dc.com

Five to privacy@lemmy.caEnglish • 11 months ago
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Hackers claimed to have stolen more than 2 billion records containing sensitive information including Social Security numbers, with some data reportedly leaked online.
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    3•11 months ago

    Is usa numbering just incremental? Canadian ones use a checksum type setup to determine if it is a valid SIN

    • @Atlas_@lemmy.world
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      7•11 months ago

      There’s some brackets based on area and similar https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/geocard.html

    • @ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
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      4•11 months ago

      First 3 digits are the area number assigned to a geographic. Next 2 are a group number and are not used serially but have a rather unusual usage sequence. The last 4 are a serial number assigned in order.

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