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All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat (www.ecoticias.com)

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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.

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[-] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Mine was laminated in the 80s and it has caused exactly zero problems since.

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