Scams, hacking, data breaches - it goes on all the time. Technology can be a wonderful thing - once upon a time medicine only had x-rays, blood test, clinical picture, and as a last resort exploratory surgery. Now we have CATs, MRI, Ultrasounds. . . great stuff.

OTOH technology means we as individuals are a lot more vulnerable. A good deal of criminals are pretty darn smart... . . and incredibly persistent. I have already been notified more than once that my medical records and all the sensitive info contained therein has been breached. We had our Discover credit card number stolen (to this day we don't know how) but lucky for us it was caught and we shut down the account pronto. To this day we never reopened the account under another number.

SS numbers were never meant to be used as a form of ID but now everyone's social is all over the place. We locked down our social security numbers because of it.

No one's money/accounts are totally safe and/or private. Such is our times.