U. of Ga.: Hacker May Have Student Info

not long ago tax forms came with ss numbers printed on the address label, and nothing bad happened.

what changed is various organizations leaping at their own convenience, using ss numbers as security checks, which is not what they are.

stop being lazy and the problem disappears. the ss number is useful only for ss again, and not, eg., bank accounts and mortgages and credit cards.

University officials say 2,429 Social Security numbers were exposed, but there was some repetition and the number of affected people is expected to be smaller.

Last year, a hacker broke into a UGA computer and may have accessed credit card information for about 32,000 students. The university never caught the hacker, but was not aware of any misuse of that information, said Tom Jackson, a UGA spokesman.