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Yet Another Way Corporations Outrank People


So AT&T just leaked everybody’s info? Want to hear something: corporations tend not to be victims of identity theft. Acquire a US resident’s social security number number and few de…

Want to hear something: corporations tend not to be victims of identity theft. Acquire a US resident’s social security number number and few details and you can perform credit fraud and identity theft. Grab a corporation’s EIN (Employer Identification Number, the US corporate equivilant of a social security number) and you get nothing.

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