Quote Originally Posted by Buckwheet View Post
I am going to chalk it up to people not storing socials and account numbers in plain text and enforcing better encryption on the web. The login for my online bank account was my social until 2009/2010?
That could be a big part of it. With all the news stories about companies and organizations losing socials so often, I imagine it boiled out to companies and organizations not wanting to be in the position where it could be them with their names in the headlines for the same thing.