As someone who’s knows some stuff about computers, shouldn’t the SSN be encrypted just like a password? Just like a password is never stored in plaintext, shouldn’t something similar be applicable for SSN when being stored? If so, when a data breach occurs, the SSN should not be available right?
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The problem is that they must be transmitted as text, unlike passwords, you can’t just use the hash of a ssn to provide it’s the right ssn
As such, the whole SSN could be retrieved if a malicious user had access to the raw database and whatever tools were used to read it
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