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.
Thanks a lot DOGE. So clearly Elon Musk gives every American compensation, we get new numbers and have all of our credit history wiped clean to start new right? Bc otherwise this just means we’ve all been massively fucked by Trump and his band of idiots
His wealth spread across everyone living in the U.S. is ~ $2500 a person
Not adult, not citizen, not household,…
Person
I could use an extra $2500.
I fucking CALLED IT.
I’ve been getting so many loan applications since they opened pandoras box last year. never had this problem. I even just got an alert my SSN has been found on the darknet.
take my advice, freeze your credit report at all three major credit firms NOW. don’t wait, takes an hour for all three all online. doesn’t matter of you’re 9 or 90, do it do it do it.
Also - create an irs profile and check to require a password to file taxes. And also create ssa profile and check the data.
Instead of new SSNs, how about we maybe the number less risky in general?
It should never have served as a “secret”. Authenticating someone needs more than some account number. SSN should be more of a “username”, not a password.
It was never meant to part of any kind of database, but banks and businesses found a loophole to that a long ass time ago and now we’re here.
I need to move
I have long predicted the entire goal of DOGE was to feed more data to Palantir, and clearly no other company is ever going to be given this level of security clearance, so they become dependent on it forever. I think this view is gaining more traction from what I’ve seen.
DOGE was a coup within a coup.
Obviously the entire goal was to make the government dependent on their select batch of private companies which they control. Palantir is one, but don’t forget the huge order for military-grade armored Teslas. And probably many similar cases.
American government is again a laughingstock. Another comedy episode for the plutocrats in Moscow.
Thanks Doge. Daily reminder. Fuck Elon.
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.
The onus is put on me to protect my info and identity but it’s never my fault when these breaches happen. It’s always a third party or a govt org that drops the ball. It’s so frustrating.
Link to the interview where this article seems to be deriving its information from: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/whistleblower-responds-after-doj-confirms-doge-mishandled-social-security-data
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.
You mean I couldn’t trust my private data with Big Balls?
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!<.
I don’t know what you’re talking about, all I see is *******************
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.
You didn’t get your SSN converted to SSID with the microchip Moderna mRNA vax?
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.
“uncle papa” and all that … as long as your family tree is a circle.
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.
They will investigate themselves, but they’ll find no wrongdoing.
FBI is already hard at work finding no evidence.
