Likewise, if you have a common name, there's a certain amount of protection in obscurity. You can see how crooks and thieves could abuse your date of birth if they knew it. Other services will use your date of birth as the answer to a "security question" when you want to change your password. Some banks want people to enter their birth dates when they're logging into their online accounts. That won't make theft of your identity impossible, but it will make it more difficult.Īnother reason: Your date of birth is often used to verify your identity. It's the third item, your date of birth, that you want to make as hard to find as you can. Your Social Security number should be very hard to find. Your name, even your full name, and your street address are not too hard to find online. To successfully steal your identity in the United States, a thief, in most instances, would need to put together four personal data points: your full name, your current address, your date of birth and your Social Security number.
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