There should be zero reason for a phone company to even have our SSNs. We really need a public national ID system in the US.
T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People
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#12These breaches keep happening, and I’m super pissed how little I can do.
What concrete proposals exist for phasing out SSN as proof of identity in the US?
And how can I (as a person in tech) get involved?
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#13Well, at least it doesn't compromise the cheaper resellers (like Boost or Mint Mobile or Metro). Ironic that the cheap resellers are safer than the supposedly premium network.
Safer? More like less attractive to target.
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#14There should be zero reason for a phone company to even have our SSNs. We really need a public national ID system in the US.
Fantastic. Let's centralize all records from everybody in one central location that totally won't get hacked, by the same government that screwed up Healthcare.gov, your DMV, and just recently a war against militants wearing sandals.
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#15With the frequency of these breaches, it feels like we are moving to a post-security world where SSNs and DOBs are simply public information.
Would that really be such a bad thing? Both seem completely replaceable as authentication steps.
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#16There should be zero reason for a phone company to even have our SSNs. We really need a public national ID system in the US.
Serious question, how would that be any different than a SSN?
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#17I was a tmobile customer in the past. For all I know, my information could be in this leak. What should I do to protect myself? I called T mobile but received no update.
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#18Any entity using SSN and DOB as identity verification should be solely liable for any loss caused by fraud.
Are you talking about T-Mobile, or the companies that fraudsters actually go to with this information?
You're not going to do much damage creating a T-Mobile account with my SSN. You will signing up for a credit card or resetting the password on my bank account.
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#19It is annoying. Between all the breaches, it is virtually guaranteed my information is floating out there. The worst part is, I have zero to no recourse here. What are they gonna offer me? Discounted credit monitoring? What is the tipping point? Did we manage to pass it altogether ( asking since even I took this news as... eh, why bother )? Honestly, what needs to happen to make it 'not so'.
At this point I just assume my info is lost and act accordingly. Regular checks of my credit report. Skepticism of my mail. Careful review of my tax receipts.
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#20As usual they don't say how this was accomplished. They call it "sophisticated" but it probably was just stupid or lazy, which is very common in most corporate hacks. Big companies don't really care much about security since it costs money and rarely causes much trouble to your stock price and exec compensation. The people who suffer are those whose data is compromised and have no idea it happened.