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.

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    0 chance they hand out new SSID, that’s money and work and confusion, imagine every medical entity changing over that code?

    First, the govt would need to make a lookup table.

    Anyone that used their old ssid for something, or a system that had the old ssid in it, would need a translation to the new ID.

    Sooo at what point could you safely stop accepting old ID’s because they’re all changed over? Never. Some random medical provider in east bumfuck, TN, still uses your SSID from their own paper copy. So you’re stuck accepting old SSIDs and translating them into new SSIDs on demand, which completely breaks any security of changing IDs in the first place.

    There have been enough nexus/credit leaks over the years, it’s hardly news that those ID’s are compromised.