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

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.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    It seems to me that these are not real problem, other countries solved them dozens of years ago, it is just that you people (assuming you are from US) don’t want to solve them.

    I’m aware of the problems and I donate a large portion of my time towards working to fix these issues which were put into place long before I was born.

    Tell me, how did you personally help implement the ID system in your country… or did you simply benefit from the work of others and think that this gives you license to sneer at people who are in the process of doing the work that you take for granted?