Your Social Security number is important for finding employment, filing your tax return and applying for lines of credit. It can also be a pain to recover if thieves get a hold of your SSN and use it to apply for jobs, open accounts in your name and steal your tax refund. Prohibiting electronic access to your SSN may feel extreme — it’s certainly inconvenient. But if you’ve experienced identity theft or your personal identifiable information was compromised in a recent data breach, like the hacks of Change Healthcare or National…
