Social Security Data Allegedly Pilfered
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Several Social Security Administration employees have been charged with giving confidential consumer information to credit card thieves in exchange for bribes as low as $10, authorities said. They said the thieves, some of them Nigerians, obtained information on holders of at least 1,000 Social Security numbers, including the maiden names of their mothers.
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