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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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[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Frankly having to have an ID card is not a boast. It's depressing.

[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

In any other country, I would agree. In the US, you're guaranteed they will privatize the shit out of it until it's costly, inefficient, unreliable, but someone became a billionaire.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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'.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You'd rather have papers?

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I'd rather have nothing. The government shouldn't care and no one else should either.