Social Security numbers

The Better Business Bureau and FBI are warning consumers to beware of scammers trying to sell them "credit privacy numbers" to help boost their credit scores. These digits could actually be Social Security numbers belonging to children. FBI officials have been looking into the problem, which they...

How many times do companies use your Social Security number as the unique identifier for you? Your doctor, bank, employer, all depend on the number for billing and recording transactions. A troubling new study by ID Analytics found that, according to the wide-ranging company and government records...

As you may have heard, Citibank messed up. Big time. It accidentally sent out more than 600,000 mailings to customers with their Social Security numbers printed on the outside of the envelopes. One of WalletPop's editors was one of those 600,000, and she received a letter from Citibank that read...

As a people, we rely on Google for a lot. We count on the company to deliver information, email and more; but did you know you can now go after Google for your mistakes? That's exactly what one bank is doing after a teller accidentally emailed a document containing information on 1,300 accounts to...

For as much as people worry about the information collected by companies and the government, they often discard incredible amounts of personal information when they upgrade to a new computer. Individuals aren't the only ones guilty of handing out information on old computers; in their annual study...