On a job application site for my local government it reveals if a specific social security has been used or not on that site. The site is very outdated.

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    13 hours ago

    Depends on the size of the agency. You can already guess a SSN based on the range of numbers used. If you were targeting the youngest or oldest person at a small agency you could probably get a high percent chance of getting a match.

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      True, but this is all applicants as it’s a third party website. So likely not a huge issue, but it does lead me to believe there are other issues with their data handling.

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        9 hours ago

        Wonder if that record of ssns that its checking against is encrypted. That seems harder so maybe that’s a step they skipped?