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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/60478981

Borges alleges that a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, copied the government’s master Social Security database into a cloud system that lacked normal oversight.

If his account is correct, the mishandling of this information could expose hundreds of millions of people to fraud and abuse for the rest of their lives.

  • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    At university in the 90s they publicsllt posted grades by ssn instead of name.

    My driver’s license ID number was my ssn. Then they changed it to a different number, but I got a state ID as a backup with a pic in case the license was lost and that type of ID had my ssn. No idea what the state ID uses any more, but probably not that since apparently the very insecure and public nine digit number magically became super secret because credit companies wanted it to be.

    • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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      2 days ago

      I started in the late '90s as well. I can’t remember for sure if the exams/grades were posted by SSN. I have some memory of that, but I also have seen it in videos and I’m not sure if I’m conflating the two.