http://wccftech.com/white-house-replacing-social-security-numbers/

The White House is considering the idea of replacing the Social Security numbers in the aftermath of the historic Equifax hack. The breach resulted in over 145.5 million Americans losing their private and sensitive information, including birth dates and Social Security numbers.

Using SSNs as a personal identifier has become useless in the wake of Equifax breach as potentially anyone can buy that data on the dark web, making it a completely flawed system. White House cybersecurity coordinator Rob Joyce said in a conference today that the SSN-based identification system has “outlived” its usefulness, Bloomberg reports. He added that the administration is currently looking into alternatives utilizing modern technologies, such as a public-private key, that could be used as a national identification code.