THINK you’re safe from identity fraud because you’re careful with your personal details? If you have a US social security number (SSN), think again – it can be gleaned from publicly available information.
The first five numbers of the nine-digit SSNs are based in part on the zip code of the area in which the person in question was born. Now and of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have shown that it is possible to predict the remaining four digits from .
For 8.5 per cent of people born between 1989 and…
