EDIT: To you armchair cybersecurity experts out there.. I never said anything about storing them this way. I said "works with". Excel is used for importing data provided from a client to secure software used for calculations in the pension world. We have to work with SSN's to provide government forms like the 8955-SSA as well as certain benefit notifications. The Excel file is then deleted. Slow your roll. Also, as Rarvyn said, the software where it is stored is on a secure server, locked in the middle of a locked office. Nothing is stored on local desktops, and no paper leaves the office without being shredded. Any kind of external storage device gets you fired on sight. So yeah, I'd worry more about shredding your own credit card offers (which you don't, admit it) than losing your shit at the idea of your SSN being temporarily on an Excel sheet for 10 minutes.
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Or anyone who works with SSNs
EDIT: To you armchair cybersecurity experts out there.. I never said anything about storing them this way. I said "works with". Excel is used for importing data provided from a client to secure software used for calculations in the pension world. We have to work with SSN's to provide government forms like the 8955-SSA as well as certain benefit notifications. The Excel file is then deleted. Slow your roll. Also, as Rarvyn said, the software where it is stored is on a secure server, locked in the middle of a locked office. Nothing is stored on local desktops, and no paper leaves the office without being shredded. Any kind of external storage device gets you fired on sight. So yeah, I'd worry more about shredding your own credit card offers (which you don't, admit it) than losing your shit at the idea of your SSN being temporarily on an Excel sheet for 10 minutes.
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