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.

  • 5too@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    You know, I almost posted that it specifically says on the back “Not to be used for ID”, because I remember that on mine. Looked online to be sure I was right, and couldn’t find it, so I didn’t post it

    I had no idea that they removed that. It’s not like they changed function!

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      34 minutes ago

      They did start randomizing the numbers though, so the first 3 aren’t based off of the area you were born.