Showing posts with label Social Security Administration Death Master File. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Security Administration Death Master File. Show all posts

Monday, July 6, 2009

Social Security Numbering System Vulnerable to Fraud, Experts Say


Article Title: Social Security Numbering System Vulnerable to Fraud, Experts Say
Snippet from Article: "...By testing their algorithm on a half million publicly available records in the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File, the researchers were able to identify statistical patterns that then permitted extrapolating to the country’s living population, making it possible — in principle — to identify millions of Social Security numbers for individuals whose birth date and location were publicly available...."
Source: www.nytimes.com

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