Its over, in the USA

http://www.dailydot.com/news/irs-public-resource-social-security-numbers-publish-database/
It turns out you can't even trust the Internal Revenue Service with your social security number. Some bungling IT staffer at every Americans' favorite government agency forgot to redact tens of thousands of SSNs when uploading a new online database on the $1.5 trillion nonprofit industry.

SSNs are just wrong. They only reliable identity is biometry, because it is much harder to fake a finger, eyeball or a form of skull (yeah! Nazis knew how to identify)