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.

  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Thanks a lot DOGE. So clearly Elon Musk gives every American compensation, we get new numbers and have all of our credit history wiped clean to start new right? Bc otherwise this just means we’ve all been massively fucked by Trump and his band of idiots

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      4 days ago

      His wealth spread across everyone living in the U.S. is ~ $2500 a person

      Not adult, not citizen, not household,…

      Person

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    3 days ago

    Say it with me!

    A 👏 social 👏 security 👏 number 👏 is 👏 NOT 👏 a 👏 valid 👏 identity 👏 verification 👏 method.

    The idea that all SSNs should be changed is dumb.

    The fix is to get dumb people to stop using it as an identity verification method.

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    Thanks DOGE! Jesus, trump, how could you be so fucking stupid and uncaring? You have done nothing more than shove the monopoly board of america off of the table in a big tantrum because you were losing. Don’t forget, America made you, America can bring you down.

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    4 days ago

    I fucking CALLED IT.

    I’ve been getting so many loan applications since they opened pandoras box last year. never had this problem. I even just got an alert my SSN has been found on the darknet.

    take my advice, freeze your credit report at all three major credit firms NOW. don’t wait, takes an hour for all three all online. doesn’t matter of you’re 9 or 90, do it do it do it.

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    5 days ago

    What a perfect time to stop using social security numbers for specifically the thing they were not designed to be.

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      Except the dumfucks have railed against the idea of a national id number since before they removed “Not to be used for ID” from the SS cards. So instead we have a national id number that was never meant to be one and stupidly easy to figure out.

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    4 days ago

    When are they going to tattoo the QR code on our foreheads? Or at least implant a chip?

    Seriously tho… Fuck these nationalist serial numbers for humans. It’s disgusting that humanity still runs on this trash.