Apparently a research team at Carnegie Mellon University can pretty easily get the the first 5 digits of a Social Security Number using social media sites and public sources like the white pages and government sites to gather information.
“Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University used the information they gleaned to predict, in one try, the first five digits of a person’s Social Security number 44 percent of the time for 160,000 people born between 1989 and 2003.”







Lisa R.
It’s news like this that makes me wish there were a “Do Not Like This” button on Banktastic. ;)