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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)
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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.

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 55 points 5 days ago (6 children)

because it is far from a secure number.

It is only the American obsession with using it as a unique identifier for everything in their lives that has caused this issue.

[–] SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 42 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The problem is they are using Identification for authentication.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It is not even identification, it is literally just a number that anyone can use.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 19 points 5 days ago

That's true of all names. Names are still a form of identification. But it doesn't authenticate that you are a specific person.

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