"credit card numbers, bank account information and Social Security numbers."
None of these should be sensitive data in the first place. You should be able to write it in your HN profile.
Imagine if the gov. just said "We will drop all valid SSN numbers and corresponding name in .txt-file in a year and put on a public ftp-server". Then the fraud issue with SSNs would be gone.
None of these should be sensitive data in the first place. You should be able to write it in your HN profile.
Imagine if the gov. just said "We will drop all valid SSN numbers and corresponding name in .txt-file in a year and put on a public ftp-server". Then the fraud issue with SSNs would be gone.