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https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-08-13/hacker-claims-theft-of-every-american-social-security-number https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-08-13

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-08-13/hacker-claims-theft-of-every-american-social-security-number https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-08-13/hacker-cla... So it turns out the numbers are all valid. With or without AI they just misinterpreted the data. But indeed 2.9 billion records were stolen, whoever wrote this just clearly misunderstood that an individual could have more than 1 record associated to their person.

tharne 1y ago
Ahhh...that makes a lot more sense. I hope they fix that.
metalman 1y ago
no, they have one record, of 2.9 billion records bieng stollen. It is absolutely true that many records that are stolen, are not recorded, as such. There is no record of what, is recorded. This has the possibility of becoming, a record for ,well deserved, adsurdity