Unfortunately, and much to the detriment of the American people, many companies have been using SSN (or the last 4 digits, etc) as a password of sorts for deca

Unfortunately, and much to the detriment of the American people, many companies have been using SSN (or the last 4 digits, etc) as a password of sorts for decades. And with just a SSN + some other simple identifying information, an attacker could persuade a customer service representative to give them control of an account that is 'secured' in this way.