Give your SSN# online ?

[hurley842002]

I'm with everyone else saying no biggie, take the promotion and congrats! The OPM dropped the ball on my info, I'm not happy but also not too worried either.

[wyome]

I'm with everyone else saying no biggie, take the promotion and congrats! The OPM dropped the ball on my info, I'm not happy but also not too worried either.

Thanks to OPM someone in China can check my credit report and let me know what's up before LifeLock will.

[Kraven251]

If I have your name and an address that you have lived in the past 10 years, for $15 I have your SSN.

So...I'd ask yourself if you want the promotion, and then use the NRA discount on lifelock

[Hound]

Worst answer ever. I am powerless and should give up my right to protect myself. They will come after the other guy first because I am nobody.

Guess we know which way people like this will vote. I get so tired of hearing this false line of thought.

Really at this point anyone's SSN can usually be determined if someone cares enough. And that's just from federal and state databases/public record. So much PII has been hacked that I wouldn't worry too much about your own info. (That sounds crazy, I know).

Basically there's a sea of hundreds of millions of data out there for sale for $5.00, and there isn't enough cons to go through even a fifth of it. Your data may already be floating but most likely nothing will ever come of it. The chance of a small site like that being hacked to harvest that information is quite low, actually lower imho than the bigger, juicier targets.

[cstone]

Worst answer ever. I am powerless and should give up my right to protect myself. They will come after the other guy first because I am nobody.

Guess we know which way people like this will vote. I get so tired of hearing this false line of thought.

Right. Stand up for your principle OP. Tell them to shove their promotion and believe that your SSN is secure because of your standing up because someone on this board told you to. No need for you to make up your own mind.

[68Charger]

Worst answer ever. I am powerless and should give up my right to protect myself. They will come after the other guy first because I am nobody.

Guess we know which way people like this will vote. I get so tired of hearing this false line of thought.

You are powerless, the Gov't has included many other reasons and avenues for your SSN# to be shared... used to be just credit or wages... not anymore.

Someone asked for statues regarding the protections and reasons for sharing SSN?
http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...edition=prelim
http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...edition=prelim

Good luck reading thru all of that and interpreting it.

Oh, and CavSct1983 nailed it- you're absolutely NOT required to provide it for the BGC... and the OP's employer is absolutely NOT required to promote him, either.

[CS1983]

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

- Donnie

We know a promotion is on the line. We know that, like it or not, this is a fairly standard BI piece of info in order to not render false positives. We know said info is easily had with a few combos of resources and a few bucks. We know we don't know if OP's ssn is out there already (highly likely if he has done anything within the market -- those places are a more likely target for the # to make it to the criminal element). We don't know what else we don't know, which at least is a negative known. ( I know, I know).

[cstone]

- Donnie

We know a promotion is on the line. We know that, like it or not, this is a fairly standard BI piece of info in order to not render false positives. We know said info is easily had with a few combos of resources and a few bucks. We know we don't know if OP's ssn is out there already (highly likely if he has done anything within the market -- those places are a more likely target for the # to make it to the criminal element). We don't know what else we don't know, which at least is a negative known. ( I know, I know).

Third base!

[spqrzilla]

Thanks to the OPM, everyone who ever had a security clearance does indeed have their PI out there.

[68Charger]

HILLARY 2016!

You forgot
(I tried to find an emojii for #BLM, but can't find one that much of a cluster)