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by Kye 1382 days ago
You do have to put in your SSN at some point to get paid. It's stored with Stripe, but a hacker could prompt people to re-enter it for capture citing some issue. How many people are savvy enough to question that?
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some_furry 1382 days ago
"Please upload a new W-9 to comply with new IRS requirements."

(Nevermind there are no new IRS requirements.)

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nomel 1382 days ago
I suppose anything is possible with a full takeover. I was referring to data breaches.
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