Social security numbers can be predicted with public information, researchers find

Monday, July 6, 2009 - 16:28 in Mathematics & Economics

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have shown that public information readily gleaned from governmental sources, commercial data bases, or online social networks can be used to routinely predict most - and sometimes all - of an individual's nine-digit Social Security number.

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