We need your Social Security Number to create your eCredable Credit File as well as to verify your identity. eCredable encrypts your Social Security Number before transmitting it to our database using 256-bit SSL encryption. Additionally, your Social Security Number is not stored in our database as a real number, rather, we convert your Social Security Number to a 24 digit alpha/numeric sequence using encryption algorithms. A Social Security Number in our database looks something like this, and is unusable without our encryption algorithms: '3XriWv6banaf3bWQUUBH4A=='