OMB Website Exposes Thousands of SSNs 107
msblack writes "The New York Times is reporting that an Office of Management and Budget website accidentally exposed at least 30,000 social security numbers publicly online. As many as 100,000 to 150,000 individuals may have been affected. The cost to taxpayers just for notifications and credit monitoring is estimated to run $4 million. 'While there was no evidence to indicate whether anyone had in fact used the information improperly, officials at the Agriculture Department and the Census Bureau removed the Social Security numbers from the Census Web site last week. Officials at the Agriculture Department said Social Security numbers were included in the public database because doing so was the common practice years ago when the database was first created, before online identity theft was as well-known a threat as it is today. '"
they're half right (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like they got the "Social" part right... "Security", not so much.
Oh no. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Oh no. (Score:2, Funny)
30,000 SS numbers? (Score:3, Funny)
for ($i=1;$i1000000000;$i++) {
echo $i . "\n";
}
The first line of output is Strom Thurmond's or George Burns' SSN.
Solomon
So how... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, I get it. The original SSN recipient and the 3-4 ID thieves. Never mind.
Re:Mine (Score:2, Funny)
Re:30,000 SS numbers? (Score:2, Funny)
Haxor: Hello I need to withdraw all of the money from my account. My SSN is 123-45-6789.
Teller: Is your name John Smith?
Haxor: Uh....yes.
Teller: Thank you, here is your money!
Re:30,000 SS numbers? (Score:1, Funny)
int a, b, c;
for (a = 0; a < 1000; a++)
for (b = 0; b < 100; b++)
for (c = 0; c < 10000; c++)
printf("%03d-%02d-%04d\n", a, b, c);
Re:So how... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Thanks.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So how... (Score:2, Funny)