To make matters worse, anyone can republish Social Security numbers if they were already published on a public government Web site, according to a recent court ruling in Virginia.

• 更糟糕的是，如果社会安全号码已经被公布在一个公共政府网站上，那么任何人都可以将它再次公布，据维吉尼亚州最近的一项法院裁定声明。