Personally, I think that bank account numbers will have to be changed, and social security completely revamped. The odds of the Trump Regime just withdrawing money from anyone they don't like is far higher than it should be, and SS# weren't designed to be secured, even before the breach.
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Now if only they could use this opportunity to make the numbers longer and random, perhaps with a pin required to actually use it for social security... And a plastic card would be better than the small paper one we can't laminate.
Mine was laminated in the 80s and it has caused exactly zero problems since.
...i laminated my first card before they were marked 'do not laminate' but none of my subsequent replacements...
This sounds like DOGE is going to cost the USA a shitton of money fixing their bullshit.
This also sounds like one particular person, with a fuck ton of cash, should be held responsible and pay for damages.
LOL. Who am I kidding. Musk will get an invented award when SSI collapses due to fraud. Then they'll "have a concept of a plan" to fix it.... in two weeks.... forever.
Would be amazing to do a class action against him and cite the entire population of the USA as the prosecutor.
The people of the USA v. Elon Musk
If you want a picture of the future, many people are imagining concepts of big beautiful cankles in shoe lifts stamping on a non-orange (human) face in two weeks (forever)
-- George Orwell 2: the Squeakuel
I hope what changes is that they become useless as a secret number, and become only useful as identifying numbers.
I'm of the opinion that national ID numbers, finger prints, face recognition should be treated as a username, not like a password key for things.
That threat's name: Trump.
a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE
Little known?
Really??
It's sarcasm
it kind of makes sense when potus is a russian asset tasked with bringing the whole country down
it's barely been a year, and look at all the damage done that will take decades to fix--IF it's fixable
Russia finally won the cold war in spades.
It really is genius. All Russia did was lean on the stupid people. Feed them lies, get them pissed off, and they're more than happy to burn their own house down as a response.
It cost them almost nothing to wreck the USA.
It's crazy when you think about it.
"a lie will circle the globe, while the truth is still putting on its shoes"
It isn't fixable Cheeto man destroyed the US's international position like none before and europe is done relying on the US. That will never go back.
Put a freeze on your credit reports ASAP.
2FA will provide at least a bit of protection.
This whole story is a nothingburger made up by the administration to try and take over elections. Social Security numbers have all been leaked since at least the Equifax breaches in 2018 and since. Everyone should assume their number is compromised and have a freeze on at all the agencies.
So did the government buildings not have security to prevent this sort of breach?
The security was deemed "inefficient"
"Might one day" need to be changed. Yes, they royally fucked it up, but there's nothing new going on here, and that headline is a tad misleading.
"How could we have possibly known that this was going to happen?"
-The people who repeatedly dismissed all warnings that this was going to happen
Insanely preventable.
Planned.
Didn’t we know this already at the time they breached those systems? If nothing has been done yet, I doubt it ever will…unless of course some private entity wants some pork for implementing a new id system to replace SS. In fact I very much doubt this security oversight was unintentional to begin with.
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.
Tbh I hope social security gets leaked enough to finally prompt action. Mine has been public knowledge ever since Equifax leaked it.
After the Experian and AT&T and …. data breaches, I’m 100% certain my SSN is out there. You can’t rely on security through obscurity to protect it. You have to take active means such as freezing your credit and monitoring it for use.
I hatefucked my credit score after I turned 18, anyone stealing it isn't getting approved for shit 🤣
We're going to give everyone new IDs, but in space.
- Elon, probably
Put it in the blockchain!
—Elon, in a k-hole
Gee how could that happen? This administration has been so water tight up to now?!