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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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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Soooo here is a general question about cybersecurity.

Is it really important if there are no consequences to breeches?

Same way big business see fines as a cost of doing business, I think we are getting to a time that breaches might become part of business as usual.

I actually think that’s a good thing as a person who promotes self hosting. If the assumption becomes that your data is never safe in corporate hands, people might move away from having their entire lives on the cloud.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 hours ago

To a degree, it already is business as usual for these firms (look at their underinvestment in IT infrastructure). The issue for the self-hosting community is that not enough of the population is technologically literate enough to understand the risks of using these platforms (insert any Meta/Bytedance/Microsoft/Amazon platform here), and the critical mass of users will remain perpetually vulnerable.

With that being said, for those with the literacy required, self-hosting is a secure breath of fresh air.