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Re:Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, ... by cftm on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:57PM (#28250680)
Blame the insurance companies - most major insurance companies use your SSN as a mechanism for identifying the patient. The member ID #'s can be used but it's quicker to just input the SSN.
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Re:Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, ... by codegeek on Friday August 20, 2021 @04:00PM (#28250718)
But they already get a copy of our Insurance Cards. Shouldn't that be enough ?
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