South Korean National ID Database Raided
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South Korea has had a compromise of as many as 80% of its citizenry in a recent security debacle. The real question is, of course, how does knowing someone's ID compromise their identify? This is a pretty fundamental security failure, it would seem.
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I wonder if it's like getting social security numbers - now they can suffer identity fraud.
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I think so and they article said that fraud is now rampant there. But if they made the same mistakes with their IDs that we did with SSN# in the US, then that's just asking for fraud. In theory the SSN is a public number that does not identify someone so has no reason to be hidden. It is the misuse of it that causes the risk for us.
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The fact that credit agencies use the SSN is technically illegal - or does that only apply to the government itself? i.e. the only government agency that can use SSNs is the Social Security Office, but private businesses can all they want?
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That only applies to the government. Credit agencies are liable for false reporting, of course, but that they choose to use non-identifying traits as identifiers is up to them. You can identify people by anything that you want if you are private.
