UpGuard research found a trove of sensitive information in an exposed Elastic database. Getting to the bottom of what it meant led us down an interesting path.
Around 450 million numbers have been issued, but each series is comprised of 9 numbers. Therefore 4.1 billion numbers have been issued. I’ll be here all week.
They get recycled. Not saying this isn’t hyperbole, but it’s the fact that those numbers are attached to legal names (even if the person is deceased) that’s problematic.
How exactly do you have “billions” of Soc Sec numbers when they’re nine digits?
Around 450 million numbers have been issued, but each series is comprised of 9 numbers. Therefore 4.1 billion numbers have been issued. I’ll be here all week.
They get recycled. Not saying this isn’t hyperbole, but it’s the fact that those numbers are attached to legal names (even if the person is deceased) that’s problematic.