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Every American's Social Security number, address may have been stolen in hack (www.fox5dc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is usa numbering just incremental? Canadian ones use a checksum type setup to determine if it is a valid SIN

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

First 3 digits are the area number assigned to a geographic. Next 2 are a group number and are not used serially but have a rather unusual usage sequence. The last 4 are a serial number assigned in order.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

There's some brackets based on area and similar https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/geocard.html