Give your SSN# online ?

[MarkCO]

NO is always my answer.

I am a IC for a company (a major one you all would know) who wanted my SSN to do a background check. I told them no. I also told them they could not use my SSN (that they already have) for any purpose other than submission to the IRS on required forms. At one point, after some consternation and gnashing of teeth, they realized they did not need it.

It is not on my DL, or my checks, or 4473s either.

You have no control of a third party, and that is where the hacks come from most of the time.