Rethinking the use of Social Security numbers
Monday, June 8, 2015 - 06:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Nearly every 12 hours, on average in 2014, there was an institutional data breach somewhere in the United States—a record 783 cases reported last year, according to the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center. And the dire consequence is that these attacks give criminals access to what security experts call "the keys to the kingdom": our Social Security numbers.