Over the years my Social Security number has been stolen 5 or 6 time that I know of, not because of carelessness on my part, but because businesses and government agencies failed to keep information safe.
I’ve had to keep all my credit accounts frozen for years now, we need a pin number adjacent to a Social Security Number and choose a different pin every year at tax time, so we can crack down on identity theft, and or tokenize Social Security Numbers and confirm or deny everything that is transactional instantly.