Its probably a mix of SSNs and EINs, there is no limit to the amount of EINs you can have. Except for the fact they will only issue one a day to a person.
Comment on Social Insecurity: Billions of Social Security Number and Passwords
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
According to SSA they have issued under 500m SSNs and they are not reassigned after death. How have BILLIONS been found?
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The article says more clearly “2.7 billion records with Social Security numbers.” The author goes on to say he found 4 records with a friend’s data but in those 4 records were 3 different SSNs. He called the friend and confirmed that one of them was his actual SSN. I guess someone was auto-linking names and SSNs for ID theft purposes and getting it wrong sometimes.