The following genealogy web site run by the LDS Church lists the Social Security numbers of your loved ones who have died. I contacted them because both of my deceased parents' Social Security numbers are listed, including the city and state where they lived. They said that the government publishes these as public record and that I would have to go to the Social Security office and talk to them to have the information removed. I understand that the death notice is public record, but Social Security numbers?

Go to this web site and look up a deceased loved one:

http://www.familysearch.org/

This is an easy way for an illegal alien to take your loved one's identity and you would never know about it.