For Real, Another data loss? The system is going to change. It’ll be back to a hand shake to do business.
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are all these hackers just rogue intelligence agencies?
Nothing on the web is safe or probably ever will be.
I was just notified last week by one of my credit cards that my info (name, address,ssn) showed up on the dark web. I immediately logged into all 3 credit bureaus and froze my credit, and put a fraud alert on the first one I logged into. You only have to do one because they submit that info to the other bureaus immediately. I got notification from the other 2 the next day that they added the fraud notice.
Honestly though - it doesn't really worry me anymore. I was military for 10 years, and had a TS and a Q clearance for at least 15 (the Q was after I got out and worked at the NRC). OPM has been hacked many times, and they probably also had people sell the data to China as well. The only time it has ever hit me personally was when some a-hole used my info to buy 2 iPhones from T-Mobile about 8-10 years ago. I opened a police report, took it to T-Mobile, and they erased any stuff they had that was trying to charge me and opened an investigation to find who did it. It sucks, but I'm used to it after all the other times my info has been stolen.
Is this possibly being done to push digital ID? Scrap the old SS# system and everyone gets a new number. Inching closer to MotB
Huge problem that blurs a citizenship line. If social security numbers are so compromised that they have corroborating data, then proving who you are becomes even more difficult.
And there's some historical references to a certain group that like to assume the identity of others and of course their properties as well.
The internet is only good for gaming and porn. That's all. Anyone who uses it for critical purposes is delusional........
An IT professional , former gamr