<story><title>Stripe Atlas Vendor Leaked SSNs</title><url>https://twitter.com/kwuchu/status/1213306146225823749</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mjevans</author><text>I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;constmontague&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1213309357204688899&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;constmontague&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1213309357204688899&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;... we need a new personal identifier, SSNs are all stolen at this point&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Though identity and authentication should be different things, as an identifier the only real problem with SSNs is that we should be using UUIDs instead.&lt;p&gt;The hard part is authentication, which should have a far more secure process than merely knowing 9 digits everyone (re)uses.</text></comment>
<story><title>Stripe Atlas Vendor Leaked SSNs</title><url>https://twitter.com/kwuchu/status/1213306146225823749</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nedwin</author><text>Why are they notifying folks via mail instead of good old fashioned email?&lt;p&gt;Haven&amp;#x27;t got a letter yet but would be super easy for me to check my inbox...</text></comment>