So Your Social Number Has Been Stolen... But How?
Recently the State of South Carolina announced that the SC Department of Revenue site was hacked. They revealed that the attackers got away with over 375,000 credit card and debit card numbers (of which roughly 16,000 were unencrypted) and 3.6 million social security numbers (all unencrypted).
One has to ask why any organization that stores sensitive information like this would store it unencrypted to begin with. There are standards in place for financial institutions that ...
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