And get there will be no justice for such egregious failures of duty and Elon will go forward to become a trillionaire. What a gaggle of idiots and fools this admin is
Hopefully, it will result in finally dropping use of SSNs as "secret" identifying person's identity and instead it will become an opaque ID which is safe to share.
"in March 2025, a
political advocacy group contacted two members of SSA’s DOGE Team with a request to analyze
state voter rolls that the advocacy group had acquired. The advocacy group’s stated aim was to
find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States. "
Not that it was already out that with past breaches. One example was the Experian breach, anyone who applied for a loan was already out there. Never mind all the other too many to count breaches that have occurred. Just now with DOGE we have 1 stop shopping.
Now that the US Gov. got to join that club we know there will be no consequences. Until execs from companies like Experian and now the US Gov. faces real Jail time, this will happen over and over.
I have not heard of a large breach from a Company for a while, are these so common that news orgs. no longer bother to report them ?
I forgot to include the background to this court case. In 2025, the Chief Data Officer of the SSA, Mr Borges, whistleblew that DOGE had unlawfully uploaded a whole copy of NUMIDENT (the SSA datastore) to an insecure server. Here is the filing from Mr Borges.
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[ 2.2 ms ] story [ 18.4 ms ] thread"in March 2025, a political advocacy group contacted two members of SSA’s DOGE Team with a request to analyze state voter rolls that the advocacy group had acquired. The advocacy group’s stated aim was to find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States. "
Now that the US Gov. got to join that club we know there will be no consequences. Until execs from companies like Experian and now the US Gov. faces real Jail time, this will happen over and over.
I have not heard of a large breach from a Company for a while, are these so common that news orgs. no longer bother to report them ?
I forgot to include the background to this court case. In 2025, the Chief Data Officer of the SSA, Mr Borges, whistleblew that DOGE had unlawfully uploaded a whole copy of NUMIDENT (the SSA datastore) to an insecure server. Here is the filing from Mr Borges.
https://whistleblower.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08-26-2...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696654