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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 13 hours 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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[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 49 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Lmao, like they'd do that

[–] Sunforged@lemmy.ml 27 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

They would do it to punish out groups...

They sure are making alot of lists lately.

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

How would changing social security numbers punish people?

[–] Sunforged@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

If you make the barrier to entry high enough that only people with money can get issued new and secure ssn would be one way.

The more devious thing would to just not allow folks on your "terrorist" list to be allowed new numbers. Now you would have a new way to justify filling your concentration camps.

To be clear I don't think currently anything like this is planned, this would just be the most fucked up way fascists could capitalize on their own fuck up. Also probably the only reason they would consider going through the hassle of a ssn restructuring.

[–] runsmooth@kopitalk.net 19 points 12 hours ago

A cynic in me suggests that this may be a move to push people off the system and disenfranchise them entirely, or the new rationale to create a second class of people who are forced to live with increased digital vulnerability while a new class of numbers can be generated with different privileges.