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Rethinking the use of Social Security numbers
By – Chelsea Leu, www.phys.org)
Nearly every 12 hours, on average in 2014, there was an institutional data breach somewhere in the United States—a record 783 cases reported last year, according to the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center. And the dire consequence is that these attacks give criminals access to what security experts call “the keys to the kingdom”: our Social Security numbers.
In recent months, cyber-attacks have compromised the personal data and Social Security numbers of 47,000 employees and actors affiliated with Sony Corp., 800,000 workers at the U.S. Postal Service, 11 million customers of Premera Blue Cross, and up to 78.8 million customers at Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield. Read more…