Homework: go see how long it takes you to buy your own SSN on the darknet.
Heck, you don't even need to do that. Plenty of perfectly legal services you can sign up for as a PI, debt collector, whatever. You don't even need an information leak to have hit you. If you've participated in the modern economy, your SSN is trivially available for less than $30 via (arguably) legal means.
Anyone that doesn't treat their SSN as public information these days is living in a fantasy world. It's been this way for quite a long time, and I've never been too worried about my info floating around on the darkweb - the scammers weren't using those sources for the most part anyways.
The only leak I really thought was a big deal in recent times is Equifax - since that leak very likely was the whole burrito. That very likely escalated the "identity theft" war quite a bit.
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Heck, you don't even need to do that. Plenty of perfectly legal services you can sign up for as a PI, debt collector, whatever. You don't even need an information leak to have hit you. If you've participated in the modern economy, your SSN is trivially available for less than $30 via (arguably) legal means.
Anyone that doesn't treat their SSN as public information these days is living in a fantasy world. It's been this way for quite a long time, and I've never been too worried about my info floating around on the darkweb - the scammers weren't using those sources for the most part anyways.
The only leak I really thought was a big deal in recent times is Equifax - since that leak very likely was the whole burrito. That very likely escalated the "identity theft" war quite a bit.