To: ilgipper
Well, if they released her SSN minus the last 4 digits, can someone still steal her identity?
13 posted on
09/02/2008 2:49:55 PM PDT by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Yes - might take some time. In the worse case, a brute force approach could be done to verify the last four. But given that much of a start, yes it is possible.
Heck, the Social Security Admin will help you do it. http://www.ssa.gov/employer/ssnv.htm
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Well, if they released her SSN minus the last 4 digits, can someone still steal her identity?Do you have any idea how fast a computer can gerate 9999 numbers and search them (with the right software of course)? The 9 numbers of a SSN are significant principally because it would take an inordinate amount of time to generate & search all the possible combinations - 9999 numbers - not so very long at all...
48 posted on
09/02/2008 3:28:29 PM PDT by
GunnyB
(Once a Marine, Always a Marine)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Well, if they released her SSN minus the last 4 digits, can someone still steal her identity?They can certainly figure out the remaining 4 digits which upon doing so, they will promptly pull her credit report.
51 posted on
09/02/2008 3:32:23 PM PDT by
fso301
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Well, if they released her SSN minus the last 4 digits, can someone still steal her identity?Yes
75 posted on
09/02/2008 3:50:48 PM PDT by
meyer
(...by any means necessary.)
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