Some Stanford employees are victims of Social Security fraud
The Social Security numbers of some Stanford employees have been pilfered, and fraudulent benefit claims have been filed, raising concerns that the new thefts might be linked to a tax data breach last year involving university workers.
At least one employee also was targeted in last year’s case of identity theft — and is frustrated that Stanford has not directly reached out to previous victims to warn them of potential threats to their Social Security numbers.
Stanford responded that the private information was obtained some other way, and that it is not to blame for the most recent incident.
In April 2016, criminals used hundreds of Stanford employees’ Social Security numbers and birthdates to download hundreds of W-2 forms from the credit bureau Equifax, which they then used to fraudulently file tax returns.
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