shopping.msn.com seeks users Social Security Number

[mgm]

I don't know if this is the correct newsgroup, but I had a disturbing alert
from my software firewall of Zone Alarm.
I place vital personal info into it's "Vault" feature which blocks internet
disbursement of info like social sec. num and bank account numbers and the
like.

When I attempted to use the msn.com free games, I was alerted via Zone Alarm
that shopping.msn.com was attempting to retrieve my social security
number!!!!!

Why on earth would a game site need a social???

 

[g88keeper]

perhaps you use it as a password? i had to stop using the ebay feature in
free ZoneAlarm as it did not discriminate between the use of my password on
ebay and use of the same password on other sites

 

[mgm]

I definitely do NOT use my social or any other vital info as passwords. Big
NO NO. I use only "strong" passwords on ssl banking sites and the like. I'm
stumped