A whistleblower warns a mishandled cloud copy of Social Security data could put millions at lifelong risk and force SSNs to change.

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.

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 days ago

    All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed

    Yeah, sure, and winged monkeys may fly out of my ass. But I doubt it’ll happen.

    • ButteryMonkey@piefed.socialEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Yeah, honestly they have needed to be changed for years now, what with all the data breaches and stuff… Pretty sure everyone’s info was leaked ages ago. Nothing has been done because this is how the people in charge want it.