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3 billion hit in catastrophic data breach exposing full names, addresses and SSNs on dark web
the mirror via msn ^ | 8/7/24 | Erin Rose Humphrey

Posted on 08/08/2024 11:01:15 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19

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To: Steven Scharf

“They don’t call the SSN numbers in other countries. So I would tag this one as bogus.”

Read the article. “includes”.

Some had SS numbers that were revealed. Others without SS numbers had other personal data revealed.


21 posted on 08/08/2024 11:43:19 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“ There are not 2.9 billion Americans.”

Only on Election Day


22 posted on 08/08/2024 11:43:58 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Oh you are one of those noticers, huh


23 posted on 08/08/2024 11:44:03 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Jerico Pictures? So is that a front for a huge data bank? And this happened back in April so it took this long for all those alerts to start showing up? Man, we’re never going to be unscrewed with this stuff.


24 posted on 08/08/2024 11:46:20 AM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: 21twelve
The 9 digits in a SS number can form 3,265,920 different numbers.

That's only about 10% of the US population.
The real answer is closer to 1 billion combinations.

25 posted on 08/08/2024 11:48:59 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: RomanSoldier19

26 posted on 08/08/2024 11:50:49 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 20)
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To: 21twelve

The correct number is one billion possible social security numbers.

This page explains why:

http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/qq/database/qq.09.02/chris1.html


27 posted on 08/08/2024 11:53:52 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Red Badger

Sharing IS caring right?


28 posted on 08/08/2024 12:18:01 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: TangoLimaSierra; TexasGator; cgbg

Thanks for the correction!

I just used the first thing that popped up on my search which I should know better. I went back to look at it - it was some on-line course from India!

“We will use the concept of the relation between permutation and combination.” Well - the complicated math they used sure looked good! (I may have asked the wrong question though??)

Oops - I think the answer is for nine digits, but only using each digit in the number once - no repeated numbers, so 999-99-999 would not be allowed. Although I doubt that number would be allowed as a SS security number either!


29 posted on 08/08/2024 12:19:21 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Someone really needs to do this to every Federal employee and all main stream lying media.


30 posted on 08/08/2024 12:21:06 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: 21twelve

The irony is that India is one of the countries that would need more than nine digits.

:-)


31 posted on 08/08/2024 12:34:24 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Buttons12

As if they care.


32 posted on 08/08/2024 2:08:11 PM PDT by Dennis M.
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To: RomanSoldier19

This happens all the time but they are not true data breaches. Mexico pays companies and organizations to release this info so illegals can steal IDs and collect welfare and send money back to mexico.


33 posted on 08/08/2024 5:52:46 PM PDT by Diversity Is Our Weakness
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