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Personal Data on 26.5 million Veterans Stolen...

n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
edited May 2006 in General Discussion
Beware of identity theft if you left the service after 1975...

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-05-22T190124Z_01_N22377047_RTRUKOC_0_US-CRIME-VETERANS.xml&src=rss
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  • kyplumberkyplumber Member Posts: 11,111
    edited November -1
    Oh ok that explains it! I thought *williams was now laying brick here in central KY at the ripe age of 72
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    F-N wonderfull. Can I sue the government if mine is used?
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  • drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,620 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fantastic, serve your country so Hosea can steal your ID.

    The military needs to get away from using social security numbers all together.
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  • mrseatlemrseatle Member Posts: 15,467 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Scary... but my credit score is already 150[8D]
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  • kristovkristov Member Posts: 6,633
    edited November -1
    Some clerk takes home a complete data base for 25+ million vets? An amazing lack of security. I operate my own business and NO ONE (including my two partners or myself) takes any data out of the office and home with them. I don't even have engineering software loaded onto my machine here at home because if I need to do extra work on a project I'll go into the office and do it.
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  • joeaf1911a1joeaf1911a1 Member Posts: 2,962 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Drobs: You got it right. Never could figure out why in hell the miliary started using S.S. numbers instead of the old serial numbers
    as used during , prior, and after ww2 until about the Nam era. These
    serial numbers the Army (at least) used only showed in most cases
    whether one was drafted or enlisted, by the first digit, and the second digit was the group of states where one enlisted. There were other first digit numbers but mainly the ones I speak of. This Serial #
    gave away little information. "if it aint broke, dont fix it". My
    S.S. # appears no where on my WW2 discharge. Most of us recorded our discharges back then. Now in this I.D. theft that is rampant and aided
    by those working with this information it seems few record their discharges for safety sake.
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  • mrseatlemrseatle Member Posts: 15,467 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I agree that's a pretty big file to bring home[:(!]
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  • victorlvlbvictorlvlb Member Posts: 5,004
    edited November -1
    Why would anyone need to take a file like that home????[:(][:(][:(]
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  • BlckhrnBlckhrn Member Posts: 5,136
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by kristov
    Some clerk takes home a complete data base for 25+ million vets? An amazing lack of security. I operate my own business and NO ONE (including my two partners or myself) takes any data out of the office and home with them. I don't even have engineering software loaded onto my machine here at home because if I need to do extra work on a project I'll go into the office and do it.


    There you have it, absolutely no accountability if you "work" for the gov't.
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by joeaf1911a1
    Drobs: You got it right. Never could figure out why in hell the miliary started using S.S. numbers instead of the old serial numbers
    as used during , prior, and after ww2 until about the Nam era. These
    serial numbers the Army (at least) used only showed in most cases
    whether one was drafted or enlisted, by the first digit, and the second digit was the group of states where one enlisted. There were other first digit numbers but mainly the ones I speak of. This Serial #
    gave away little information. "if it aint broke, dont fix it". My
    S.S. # appears no where on my WW2 discharge. Most of us recorded our discharges back then. Now in this I.D. theft that is rampant and aided
    by those working with this information it seems few record their discharges for safety sake.

    The reason they gave me was they ran out of numbers. When I joined the Navy on 10 April 1961 my Service Number was 5nn-nn-nn. A couple years later they were using letter prefixes, Bnn-nn-nn, then Cnn-nn-nn, etc. I don't know what letter they went up to, but they said they would soon be reusing Service Numbers of people who were still alive, so they switched over to Social Security Numbers. I ask why they didn't just add another digit. I got a blank stare.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • rongrong Member Posts: 8,459
    edited November -1
    Was it really stolen?
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  • HDRIDERHDRIDER Member Posts: 305 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    Beware of identity theft if you left the service after 1975...

    http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-05-22T190124Z_01_N22377047_RTRUKOC_0_US-CRIME-VETERANS.xml&src=rss


    I bet after learning of their take these two bit crooks said oh sh!!, how do we get rid of this data!!!! [:D] [:D] [:D]
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by HDRIDER
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    Beware of identity theft if you left the service after 1975...

    http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-05-22T190124Z_01_N22377047_RTRUKOC_0_US-CRIME-VETERANS.xml&src=rss


    I bet after learning of their take these two bit crooks said oh sh!!, how do we get rid of this data!!!! [:D] [:D] [:D]


    Let's hope so![:D]
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  • Red223Red223 Member Posts: 7,946
    edited November -1
    I had a Mexican Green card holder under me in the military. He TOLD me his fellow mehicans look for all the SSN's and names they can get while in the military to send back to mexico for $$$.



    My uncle was in the US Marine corps years ago and was last called up for Desert Storm in 1991. His name is unique and there isn't another human on the planet with his name.

    I now work for the military and saw his name on some military household goods leaving the Pacific. Somebody stole his identity and used it to get into the military.

    Our family name is unique with less than 50 people in the US having it. Somebody else used it and got into the US Air Force with it.

    Somebody used my SSN and name and financed a car with it. I found it on my credit check, they were even paying it on time. I called the bank it was financed thru and told them it was identity theft and they better get it off my name or I'm coming after them.

    Identity theft is an easy crime to commit with the US giving access to the info to green card holders in our military.
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