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	<title><![CDATA[Social Security Numbers Cracked, Creates Identity Theft Risk]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-siciliano/social-security-numbers-c_b_227469.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1361161,00.html?track=sy160#">SearchSecurity.com</a> reports that researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a reliable method to predict Social Security numbers using information from social networking sites, data brokers, voter registration lists, online white pages and the publicly available Social Security Administration's Death Master File.</p>

<p>Originally, <a href="http://people.howstuffworks.com/social-security-number2.htm">the first three numbers</a> on a Social Security card represented the state in which a person had initially applied for their card. Numbers started in the northeast and moved westward. This meant that people on the...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Business]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-07-08T13:50:00-04:00</date_published>
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