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My UK equivalent (NI number), and usual things like DoB, Address etc leaked a couple of weeks ago thanks to my company outsourcing to layers of companies who se
by midasuni 3y ago
My UK equivalent (NI number), and usual things like DoB, Address etc leaked a couple of weeks ago thanks to my company outsourcing to layers of companies who seem to have transferred PI by sending to pastebin or something. (Same moveit thing)
My company just cries “it’s not our fault” when it clearly is. The larger problem here is that this bit of unchangale data can be used not just to open lines of credit but do things like take student loans out.
Those loans are then automatically deducted from your salary and they won’t stop doing that even after you flag it. a private company can steal money from you after they cock up.
- sys_64738 3y agoAren't National Insurance numbers purely for state pension contributions? I don't think it's like what the USA SSN has been butchered as. When I was at college in the USA the SSN was used as your student ID and the prof printed them on attendance sheets each lecture and passed it around the room.
- davchana 3y agoAnd then many of my employers use or used it as employee number (or last 4), and same passed an attendance sheet with my full name n last 4 of social around.
- midasuni 3y agoIt’s used for various government and tax purposes. You can seemingly use it to apply for state benefits and then have them paid elsewhere, then get threaded with being arrested for fraud. Same with student loans. One person on a radio phone in a couple of days ago had had both happen