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jodrellblank
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LulzSec supposedly claims its biggest coup yet: Th...
Why would you be terrified? There isn't
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much information on the census form - name, age, address, nationality and employer, roughly.
JonnieCache
on June 21, 2011
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It includes information on income and health, those are the really nasty bits to have leaked as far as I can remember.
Apart from the obvious ID theft risk.
iamichi
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Name and DoB of everyone in a household alone can make it much easier for someone to pose as you to say a credit card company.
zbyszek
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Aren't these already in public records in the form of birth certificates and, if you own property, the title deeds?
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