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Davriellelouna @lemmy.world

5d ago

The entire US Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says

www.nytimes.com

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4d ago

The entire US Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says

www.nytimes.com /2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html

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Davriellelouna @lemmy.world

5d ago

The entire US Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says

www.nytimes.com /2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html

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Davriellelouna @lemmy.world

5d ago

The entire US Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says

www.nytimes.com /2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html

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Yeah, it only would take a couple GB of data transfer and could have been done in 2 minutes.
There is a reason why social security numbers are not supposed to be used for the very things that they are used for but businesses did it anyway
@Davriellelouna entirely plausible these days, unfortunately.