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.
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.
Also - create an irs profile and check to require a password to file taxes. And also create ssa profile and check the data.
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
more than 300 million Americans
I know wiggle room is the gold standard of journalism… but you can just say “all Americans”.
The rest are being deported.
DOGE infiltrated months ago and you are just reacting now?
The people in power are the same ones who created DOGE. It’s like Epstein - not like they’re going to investigate themselves.
They will investigate themselves, but they’ll find no wrongdoing.
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.
ssn was never intended to be a form of identification. it was specifically decided that it would not be used as a form of identification by the administration that controlled it
Besides, it’s a really bad form of ID. The numbers aren’t even unique, and up until 2011, a few digits are reserved for geographical information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number#Structure
If I had to reach for a hasty solution, it would be to use the IRS taxpayer ID instead. Of course, that might weaken the SSA’s importance overall, so that wouldn’t be without consequences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Taxpayer_Identification_Number
I guess that shows what people get for believing the state.
i am not going to defend the government, but in this case, it was problem laziness from the private sector. instead of relying on actual identification forms they used the ssn to shortcut paperwork
I have long predicted the entire goal of DOGE was to feed more data to Palantir, and clearly no other company is ever going to be given this level of security clearance, so they become dependent on it forever. I think this view is gaining more traction from what I’ve seen.
DOGE was a coup within a coup.
Obviously the entire goal was to make the government dependent on their select batch of private companies which they control. Palantir is one, but don’t forget the huge order for military-grade armored Teslas. And probably many similar cases.
SIEZE Elons assets arrest try him and repair the damage to American infrastructure with his money
This is how Americans are going to lose their right to vote. The process will be “slow” for specific states and regions, just long enough to miss the midterms.
Y’all won your right to vote once, you can do it again.
I will keep laughing at Americans till they manage to get their broken democracy to establish an ID system like every other country.
The same group that pushes for voter ID laws refuses to implement a national ID system because they’re afraid of the mark of the beast.
Too bad they already wear the mark, in the form of an ugly red hat
Mark of the beast? Isn’t that something about the devil? I’m not sure what you mean
Yeah, in the book of Revelation in the Bible as a sign of the end times followers of Satan will have a visible mark on them. Many evangelical Christian conspiracy theorists believe that in a literal sense. Paired with many conservatives also not wanting the government to be able to track them, a national ID system (as opposed to state IDs) has never really gain traction.
You can read more about this here if you’re interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast#Mark_of_the_beast
Some fundamentalist Christian groups, as well as various Christian writers in other traditions, interpret the mark as a requirement for all commerce to mean that the mark might actually be an object in the right hand or forehead with the function of a credit card, such as RFID microchip implants.[73] Some of these groups believe the implantation of chips may be the imprinting of the mark of the beast, prophesied to be a requirement for all trade and a precursor to God’s wrath.[74][75] Similar objections were raised about barcodes upon their introduction.[76]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, some groups associated COVID-19 vaccines and mask wearing with the mark of the beast, or that it was a microchip in the vaccine.[77] Some religious leaders spoke out against this as a misinterpretation of Revelation 13:16-18.[78] Medical institutions such as Hennepin County Medical Center noted this in their fact sheets about the vaccine.[79] A similar version was spread by Marjorie Taylor Greene, who referred to vaccine passports as being the mark of the beast.[80]
Christians should show they’re not the antichrist by getting “Nero,” which is Greek for “not the beast” tattooed on their forehead
The mark of the beast is fiat currency.
We should get ahead of the curve by making Markcoin then. Let’s do halfsies on an ICO.
Just add a 1 at the end of them all. That’s what I do when my work says I have to change my password.
Same. My password is on hunter2111111111111 now.
Shit, shouldn’t have shared it. I’ll just have to change it to >!hunter21111111111111!<.
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.
I’m sure that this will be more expensive to fix than whatever “savings” Elons ghouls have managed to bring.
Are we efficient yet?
Capitalism is the most efficient way to distribute resources (to the top).
Yes, but not at anything good.
I was going to guess that it was one of Trump’s idiot corrupt collaborators or AI, and here it is, Elon Musk’s idiot collaborators.
You mean I couldn’t trust my private data with Big Balls?
