(SSN# of every American) 2.9 billion records hacked 
in largest data data breach ever just now today 
The information consists of about 2.7 billion records, each of which includes a person's full name, address, date of birth, Social Security number and phone number, along with alternate names and birth dates, Felice claimed.
"If this in fact is pretty much the whole dossier on all of us, it certainly is much more concerning" than prior breaches, Murray said in an interview. "And if people weren't taking precautions in the past, which they should have been doing, this should be a five-alarm wake-up call for them."
About four months after a notorious hacking group claimed to have stolen an extraordinary amount of sensitive personal information from a major data broker, a member of the group has reportedly released most of it for free on an online marketplace for stolen personal data.
literally, https://www.livenowfox.com/news/americans-social-security-number-address-possibly-stolen
literally, https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220212/national-public-data-breach-social-security-3-billion
somehow these guys got the story 3 days ago but go off
Edit: these are the people who lost everyones data that literally no one gave them consent to have in thw first place
https://www.nationalpublicdata.com/about-us.html
literally no diversity, no wonder this happened but go off
of course the company has no info about who runs it, who owns their website, or how they got a hold of literally all that data, and They know everything abput you though, and they couldnt keep that secret
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!burgers please explain, how can you steal someone's identity with their SSN but without any supporting documentation?
when I got my drivers license, passport and background check I had to go to the government office with my original birth certificate so they could verify who I was.
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It's much, much less common than it used to be. A lot of services have stopped treating SSNs as presumptive proof of identify.
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!R-slurs don't forget this easy money hack if you get someone else's SSN
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"Steal someone's identity" most of the time just means "apply for credit in their name." Like if I apply for a credit card, and the information I entered matches that on my credit report, I can get approved without further ado—it is unusual to be asked to verify your income or identity. I only had to do that for the first credit card I got.
Fraudulent tax returns are another popular one. If you file as a tax preparer, there is no verification of identity of the client, only a match for the last name, Social Security number and dates of birth. So you can enter another address to mail the check to or a direct deposit bank account you control. (The name on the account must match, but there are commercial services that automate making new accounts.) If you file as an individual, you'd need to know the adjusted gross income on the tax return for last year, but 0 works if they didn't file. So with big data leaks people make fraudulent filings in bulk to claim refundable credits and at least some of those will get through.
It's not really about living as another person, just the equivalent of a smash-and-grab robbery.
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that makes sense. I know getting a line of credit is easier but I thought this was about actual identity theft
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its unfortunately easy to get an og birth certificate through the mail purchased from the dept of vital stats of the state you were born in with a visa gift card you paid cash for, and its kinda scary how teribly some data is kept, and Literally the whole plot of Die Hard 4 with Justin Long playing out before our eyes
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I wouldn't need a fake birth certificate. I was born in America to real parents who actually exist.
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