Personal Finance (Not Investing) • Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with SS numbers that may affect every American. National Public Data

They managed to assign new IDs to Medicare recipients. The new ones are eleven characters long and include both letters and numerals. I assume but don't know that they contain redundancy checks that ensure that transpositions and single-character changes will never result in a valid ID.

I wonder why they didn't do the same thing with Social Security numbers long ago? At least with newly issued numbers.

Statistics: Posted by nisiprius — Sat Aug 17, 2024 4:42 pm — Replies 67 — Views 10727

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