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All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat (www.ecoticias.com)

submitted 1 day ago by KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca to c/FuckTheUSA@lemmy.ca

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Borges alleges that a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, copied the government’s master Social Security database into a cloud system that lacked normal oversight.

If his account is correct, the mishandling of this information could expose hundreds of millions of people to fraud and abuse for the rest of their lives.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Considering the fact that there is no security or verification built in to the SS number, it is simply a serial number, this have been obvious for decades.

Even just implementing a checksum would increase security massively.