Study: Social Security Numbers May Be Hackable : NPR
Clipped Fresh — By Christopher Spencer on July 7, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Study: Social Security Numbers May Be Hackable : NPR.
FROM THE ARTICLE: The researchers, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, discovered patterns in the way Social Security numbers are assigned. They found those patterns by mining information from people whose numbers they knew: death records that list a deceased person’s date and place of birth, and their Social Security numbers. They discovered they could reliably predict the right number.
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