This sounds like DOGE is going to cost the USA a shitton of money fixing their bullshit.
This also sounds like one particular person, with a fuck ton of cash, should be held responsible and pay for damages.
LOL. Who am I kidding. Musk will get an invented award when SSI collapses due to fraud. Then they'll "have a concept of a plan" to fix it.... in two weeks.... forever.
That threat's name: Trump.
Unfortunately, I don't see this in anyway not being used to promote Trump's Voter ID push. I don't have a problem with "Voter ID", the EU has had national ID cards for quite a while, the problem is determining who gets them first and who runs into problems with them will be used by Trump to try to manipulate the elections. It will also definitely be used as the excuse to deploy ICE troops under.
a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE
Little known?
Really??
"Might one day" need to be changed. Yes, they royally fucked it up, but there's nothing new going on here, and that headline is a tad misleading.
I hope what changes is that they become useless as a secret number, and become only useful as identifying numbers.
Put a freeze on your credit reports ASAP.
2FA will provide at least a bit of protection.
"How could we have possibly known that this was going to happen?"
-The people who repeatedly dismissed all warnings that this was going to happen
Now if only they could use this opportunity to make the numbers longer and random, perhaps with a pin required to actually use it for social security... And a plastic card would be better than the small paper one we can't laminate.
Planned.
Insanely preventable.
After the Experian and AT&T and …. data breaches, I’m 100% certain my SSN is out there. You can’t rely on security through obscurity to protect it. You have to take active means such as freezing your credit and monitoring it for use.
Gee how could that happen? This administration has been so water tight up to now?!
We're going to give everyone new IDs, but in space.
Considering the fact that there is no security or verification built in to the SS number, it is simply a serial number, this have been obvious for decades.
Even just implementing a checksum would increase security massively.
Personally, I think that bank account numbers will have to be changed, and social security completely revamped. The odds of the Trump Regime just withdrawing money from anyone they don't like is far higher than it should be, and SS# weren't designed to be secured, even before the breach.
Didn’t we know this already at the time they breached those systems? If nothing has been done yet, I doubt it ever will…unless of course some private entity wants some pork for implementing a new id system to replace SS. In fact I very much doubt this security oversight was unintentional to begin with.
Tbh I hope social security gets leaked enough to finally prompt action. Mine has been public knowledge ever since Equifax leaked it.
So did the government buildings not have security to prevent this sort of breach?
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