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  • Were All SS Records Compromised ? Whistleblower.

    From c186282@c186282@nnada.net to talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.usa,alt.security,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Wednesday, August 27, 2025 06:58:26
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    https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/your-money/social-security-information-risk/

    Millions of Social Security recipients’ personal information
    is at risk after federal efficiency officials created an unsecured
    copy of the nation’s Social Security database in a cloud environment,
    a whistleblower alleged Tuesday.

    Charles Borges, chief data officer at the Social Security
    Administration, filed a protected disclosure with the Office
    of Special Counsel warning that Department of Government
    Efficiency officials employed by SSA “circumvented oversight
    protocols” to access sensitive data on more than 300 million
    Americans.

    The allegations suggest DOGE personnel authorized themselves
    to create a live copy of SSA’s entire database without
    independent security measures, potentially exposing Americans
    to widespread identity theft.

    . . .

    The bosses say it's a pretty secure data area they
    have used before, theoretically cut off from the net.

    But, we'll have to wait and see how this plays out.
    Worst case, everybody will have to get new numbers,
    which would be a Godzilla-sized cluster-fuck.

    Gonna drag the nursing-home folks out for prints
    and photos and demands for birth certs ? Sorry,
    just ain't gonna work.

    On the flip, SO many existing ID numbers of varying
    kinds HAVE been compromised to Vlad's boyz that
    maybe they all SHOULD be replaced.

    In ANY case - NO unencrypted copies anymore, ever.
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  • From Kieren Nicolas Lovell@kieren.lovell.noreply@novalytics.co.uk to alt.security on Sunday, August 31, 2025 21:30:21
    From Newsgroup: alt.security

    In article <1xmdneEFjsxDeTP1nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
    c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
    The bosses say it's a pretty secure data area they
    have used before, theoretically cut off from the net.

    That they were, traditionally all of these systems were so locked off from
    the internet. Mainly, for two reasons;

    (a) They are very old, legacy systems. Ones that don't receive much
    loving. However, that's because they are such long and mission critical
    tasks, that downtime and migration were not not possible to keep it using
    the best practices. A number of idiotic morons from DOGE suggested that
    they will rewrite it in RUST...

    *Good luck with that...*

    (b) It just makes sense with the fact that the above is just impossible to ignore. Connecting it directly to the internet with modern attack tooling
    would be insane. Luckily, of course, we have our DOGE idiots deciding to
    break the air-gap... ever the helpful minion... (Putin)...

    But, we'll have to wait and see how this plays out.
    Worst case, everybody will have to get new numbers,
    which would be a Godzilla-sized cluster-fuck.

    I think this will just *have* to happen now. Not sure anyone will admit it until the next President - he doesn't appear to take critism well... </understatement>

    Gonna drag the nursing-home folks out for prints
    and photos and demands for birth certs ? Sorry,
    just ain't gonna work.

    On the flip, SO many existing ID numbers of varying
    kinds HAVE been compromised to Vlad's boyz that
    maybe they all SHOULD be replaced.

    Completely agree.

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