<prompt> Human: See the title for clarification, but basically, my SSN matches a business in a different states EIN. Do I need to worry about this? Has this happened to anyone else here? I know that theyre formatted differently, but what if the database doesnt use hyphens? Is there a chance my credit cards could be going on this business EIN or vice versa?UPDATE: Spoke with both the SSA and IRS 120 minutes of hold time, which is a new personal record and discovered that the biggest issue will be 1099s associated with the wrong personentity at the end of the year. The way to correct those is to have the issuer send in a 1099-C with the correct information at the end of the year. Beyond that, hopefully any and all applications either myself or this business fills out will have the correct hyphen placement. But maybe us both knowing so much of the other creates a MAD scenario, where were each forced to act especially vigilant. SECOND UPDATE: I went and bought a lottery scratcher in case this kind of insane coincidence extended to any other numbers in my life - did not win. Assistant: SSNs and EINs are both types of Taxpayer Identification Numbers TINs issued by the IRS federal government. No two TINs should be the same, even if one is an SSN and the other is an EIN.How did you find out that it matches a business in another state? From a bank? If that is the case, then Id say that someone mis-entered the EIN for that business and they need to verify that it is correct.Human: I typed in my SSN into a phone touch menu for my cars financial services, and was redirected to a different vehicle than one that I own. I google searched the business location and typed my SSN in EIN format and found someone incorporated for the last 15 years with that EIN.  <response>: Yea u may want to contact the irs 