T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People

Re:T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People by jjtheblunt on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @12:58PM (#28224011)

up till late 1990s SSN and DOB were public information, as they were printed on never-secured student IDs in American schools, for instance, and who knows where those unprotected lists went.

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Re:T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People by jgillette on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @02:00PM (#28224844)

my email address at the university from 2000-2003 had the last 4 of my SSN in it.

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Re:T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People by withinboredom on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @02:40PM (#28225421)

I had orders in the military listing hundreds of people’s name and SSN. This was ~2007

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Re:T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People by astura on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @10:40PM (#28229745)

This practice went on all the way into the mid-2000s at least (I graduated in 2006 and my SSN (which doubled as a student id) was printed on my student ID back then)

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Re:T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People by x0x0 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @03:47PM (#28226206)

My university used it as the student id, so who knows how many hundreds of places that got copied. Including smeared all over the virtual desktop systems as it was your login identifier.

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