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    Senior Member dragonfire's Avatar
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    What's it like to share your SSN with 50 people?

    What's it like to share your SSN with 50 people? Follow a victim's struggle


    By Bob Sullivan


    Jonathan Barnett is also Jose Cruz. And Jesus Ramirez. And Pilar Terrones, Pilar Sanchez, Esmeralda Gonzalez and dozens of other people, at least according to the nation’s identity system.

    Barnett unintentionally shares his Social Security number with all those people – and probably many more – yet his credit report and Social Security earnings records are completely clean. That seeming contradiction is a big part of his harrowing identity nightmare.

    Barnett’s predilection for assiduous recordkeeping offers a rare glimpse into the deeply flawed identity system used by the nation’s creditors and employers. It relies on the secrecy of SSNs. But Barnett’s number is hardly a secret; it’s the fraud connected to his identity that remains off limits, even to the victim.

    “It's like I have a ghost out there,â€
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    The list of data breaches at the Identity Theft Resource Center is interesting. There are many more but these sort of stood out.

    ITRC20091123-09 ACORN

    CA
    11/23/2009
    Paper Data Business Yes - Unknown # 0
    A private investigator in San Diego found thousands of sensitive documents dumped outside a California ACORN (Association of
    Community Organizations for Reform Now) office on October 9, just days after the state attorney general announced an inquiry into
    the community organizing group. "We're talking people's driver's license numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, credit card
    numbers, bank account numbers, tax returns, credit reports" — all tossed in public view in the Dumpster, the investigator said.
    ITRC20090122-02 Heartland Payment Systems

    US
    1/20/2009
    Electronic Business Yes - Published # 130,000,000
    Hundreds of credit and debit card holders appear to have been victims of a nationwide data theft carried out against Heartland
    Payment Systems, which processes cards for 250,000 restaurants, retailers and other businesses. Several Maine credit unions have
    been told by Visa and MasterCard that fraudulent charges were placed on members' cards between May 16 and August 19, 2008,
    according to Jon Paradise, a spokesman for the Maine Credit Union League. Many of the charges were tallied at Wal-Mart stores in
    Texas, he said. According to the Washington Post (Brian Krebs), tens of millions of people may be affected. Baldwin said Heartland
    does not know how long the malicious software was in place, how it got there or how many accounts may have been compromised.
    The stolen data includes names, credit and debit card numbers and expiration dates. "The transactional data crossing our platform, in
    terms of magnitude... is about 100 million transactions a month," Baldwin said. "At this point, though, we don't know the magnitude of
    what was grabbed."
    Update: As of the end of May 2009, more than 656 institutions have been impacted As of October the number of records seems to

    http://www.idtheftcenter.org/artman2/pu ... List.shtml
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    Clear to me Banks and credit companies are committing crimes using/abusing false ID,simply the bottom line get people legal or not to purchase your products, the idea of sub accounts seems to be illegal IMO.

    I knew it was bad but not to this level.
    I'm old with many opinions few solutions.

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