According to a protected disclosure filed with the Office of Special Counsel, Borges told the Government Accountability Project that DOGE officials working at Social Security created a “live copy” of the country’s Social Security records in a separate cloud environment that sidestepped usual security checks.
The group says those lapses put the Social Security information of more than 300 million Americans at risk.
more than 300 million Americans
I know wiggle room is the gold standard of journalism… but you can just say “all Americans”.
The rest are being deported.
I was going to guess that it was one of Trump’s idiot corrupt collaborators or AI, and here it is, Elon Musk’s idiot collaborators.
Just add a 1 at the end of them all. That’s what I do when my work says I have to change my password.
Same. My password is on hunter2111111111111 now.
Shit, shouldn’t have shared it. I’ll just have to change it to >!hunter21111111111111!<.
They needed to be changed 5 data breaches ago. Thank you Equifax :)
0 chance they hand out new SSID, that’s money and work and confusion, imagine every medical entity changing over that code?
First, the govt would need to make a lookup table.
Anyone that used their old ssid for something, or a system that had the old ssid in it, would need a translation to the new ID.
Sooo at what point could you safely stop accepting old ID’s because they’re all changed over? Never. Some random medical provider in east bumfuck, TN, still uses your SSID from their own paper copy. So you’re stuck accepting old SSIDs and translating them into new SSIDs on demand, which completely breaks any security of changing IDs in the first place.
There have been enough nexus/credit leaks over the years, it’s hardly news that those ID’s are compromised.
Just a minor bit of pedantry, but Social Security Numbers are generally abbreviated as SSN, SSID usually refers to a “Service Set Identifier” aka WiFi network name.
I think bumfucking is not legal in Tennessee.
It’s Tennessee. You can have a little bumfucking as a treat, as long as it’s your sibling.
But fucking over bums is encouraged
Of course.
Don’t get so worked about what’s real and what’s not. It’s just the news. Phony as always.
(seriously tho yeah u right.)
True, but the thing is that the people in power will still complain about increased fraud if and when it happens and point to the government as irresponsible custodians of personal data.
DOGE infiltrated months ago and you are just reacting now?
The people in power are the same ones who created DOGE. It’s like Epstein - not like they’re going to investigate themselves.
I’m sure that this will be more expensive to fix than whatever “savings” Elons ghouls have managed to bring.
ssn was never intended to be a form of identification. it was specifically decided that it would not be used as a form of identification by the administration that controlled it
Besides, it’s a really bad form of ID. The numbers aren’t even unique, and up until 2011, a few digits are reserved for geographical information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number#Structure
If I had to reach for a hasty solution, it would be to use the IRS taxpayer ID instead. Of course, that might weaken the SSA’s importance overall, so that wouldn’t be without consequences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Taxpayer_Identification_Number
I guess that shows what people get for believing the state.
i am not going to defend the government, but in this case, it was problem laziness from the private sector. instead of relying on actual identification forms they used the ssn to shortcut paperwork
SIEZE Elons assets arrest try him and repair the damage to American infrastructure with his money
When are they going to tattoo the QR code on our foreheads? Or at least implant a chip?
Seriously tho… Fuck these nationalist serial numbers for humans. It’s disgusting that humanity still runs on this trash.
Humanity? Lol, speak for urself, US-American. In civilized countries we use ID cards for identification. Says a lot about the US that y’all abuse Social Security Numbers as identification lol. Imagine claiming to be the greatest country on earth but then not even having ID cards lol.
Frankly having to have an ID card is not a boast. It’s depressing.
Why? It is an easy and secure way to identify yourself, be it for shopping or taxes or other necessary paperwork stuff, or anything else.
because conspiracy theory nonsense and the government is inherently evil, or something.
apparently ‘freedom’ is living in the backwoods your entire life as an undocumented citizen or something.
and medical care and social security are ‘evil’.
You’d rather have papers?
I’d rather have nothing. The government shouldn’t care and no one else should either.
I will keep laughing at Americans till they manage to get their broken democracy to establish an ID system like every other country.
The same group that pushes for voter ID laws refuses to implement a national ID system because they’re afraid of the mark of the beast.
Mark of the beast? Isn’t that something about the devil? I’m not sure what you mean
Yeah, in the book of Revelation in the Bible as a sign of the end times followers of Satan will have a visible mark on them. Many evangelical Christian conspiracy theorists believe that in a literal sense. Paired with many conservatives also not wanting the government to be able to track them, a national ID system (as opposed to state IDs) has never really gain traction.
You can read more about this here if you’re interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast#Mark_of_the_beast
Some fundamentalist Christian groups, as well as various Christian writers in other traditions, interpret the mark as a requirement for all commerce to mean that the mark might actually be an object in the right hand or forehead with the function of a credit card, such as RFID microchip implants.[73] Some of these groups believe the implantation of chips may be the imprinting of the mark of the beast, prophesied to be a requirement for all trade and a precursor to God’s wrath.[74][75] Similar objections were raised about barcodes upon their introduction.[76]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, some groups associated COVID-19 vaccines and mask wearing with the mark of the beast, or that it was a microchip in the vaccine.[77] Some religious leaders spoke out against this as a misinterpretation of Revelation 13:16-18.[78] Medical institutions such as Hennepin County Medical Center noted this in their fact sheets about the vaccine.[79] A similar version was spread by Marjorie Taylor Greene, who referred to vaccine passports as being the mark of the beast.[80]
Christians should show they’re not the antichrist by getting “Nero,” which is Greek for “not the beast” tattooed on their forehead
The mark of the beast is fiat currency.
We should get ahead of the curve by making Markcoin then. Let’s do halfsies on an ICO.
Too bad they already wear the mark, in the form of an ugly red hat
But they won’t do it.
Are we efficient yet?
Capitalism is the most efficient way to distribute resources (to the top).
Yes, but not at anything good.
more than 300 million Americans
Last I checked, that’s all of 'em
File a lawsuit against fucking DOGE and MAGA.
And then what? The Department of “””justice””” is part of them.
