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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 month ago by Cnote5@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Another victory for Small Government and the Private Sector, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fortunately the generation that got them tattooed isn't around for this

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

That's not how those numbers were intended to be used!! We can reform this. \s

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

But they won’t do it.

[–] aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@Cnote5

Or we could criminalize retention of any and all personally identifying information, and enforce that on everyone from Google to dark web site admins.

I suggest shuttering business models that require such collection, like AdSense and credit check companies.

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