Hi Shannon,
Are you telling me that the state has always shown your SSN on the site? The press release indicated that this was a temporary breach. I got the impression from the release that the breach happened when they they were switching to a new system, but if the old system had always shown the numbers then the true breach began years ago and it is much more serious.

There is a particular type of identity theft that involves appraisers. In those cases the thieves are stealing the professional identities of the appraisers to file bogus appraisals. The appraiser is left to defend an appraisal he or she never made and reputations have been damaged.

There is a suit against the state of Arizona for their use of the SSN on driver's licenses. A similar suit last year in Florida ruled that victims could be granted to people whose information had been breached even if they were yet to become an ID theft victim.

You probably know about the sucessful suit in Alaska involving the display of home addresses of registered nurses by the state licensing bureau.