Tag Archives: Social Security number

The risk of ID theft never goes away

January 13, 2011 – 9:06 am

An Olympia man may have planned the identity theft of 1,000 people and been part of the largest identity theft ring in the history of Thurston County, Wash.
Anthony Vaughn is being held in the county jail on 50 counts of identity theft. Court documents state that Vaughn admitted to detectives he performed the criminal acts [...]

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SSA says schools put kids at risk with Social Security information

July 26, 2010 – 6:30 am

With the first day of school right around the corner, the Social Security Administration’s Office of Inspector General has found that schools are putting children at risk of identity theft by obtaining their Social Security numbers when not required by law and when it isn’t necessary.
School systems in at least 26 states collect the numbers [...]

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Researchers prove Social Security numbers easy to guess and not secure

July 7, 2009 – 1:15 pm

The idea of identity thieves stealing Social Security numbers has always been frightening. With every data breach, the risk of identity theft is determined by the security of the keys to the castle—the constituents’ SSNs.
Results from a Carnegie Mellon University study shows that the numbers don’t have to be stolen; they can be discerned with [...]

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