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

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Davriellelouna@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hE8.0yRw.B-PJ1MUPS4Hw

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    OP, please revise your title to match the article, it is currently misinformation.

    The complaint is about where the oversight comes from. This is not some random cloud server.

    “S.S.A. stores all personal data in secure environments that have robust safeguards in place to protect vital information,” he said. “The data referenced in the complaint is stored in a longstanding environment used by S.S.A. and walled off from the internet. High-level career S.S.A. officials have administrative access to this system with oversight by S.S.A.’s information security team.”

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    • lemjukes@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      BUT WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE SENSATIONALISM?

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They (the DOGE bros, especially Elon) deserve prison time for their fuckery.

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    • SpicyLizards@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is the answer, “what is treason”?

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      • ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Baby, don’t skirt it. Don’t skirt it. The law.

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    • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Funny, I have an interview invite from DOGE (I considered joining USDS before it became DOGE, had been asked to join by a member back during Obama). Obviously I never did it, but I do keep those emails for historical purposes now haha

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    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      double checks the community instance

      Yes…prison

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      • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        An extremely short life sentence

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  • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think it was a “random” cloud server at all. I think the people who bought the data already have it now.

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    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Half right. OP’s title is massively misleading. Private SSA cloud, the complaint is about where oversight comes from.

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  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

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  • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gee, who could’ve foreseen this happening after a gang of techbro goons forced their way in and opened backdoors on all those computers…

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    • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Forced their way in, were given the keys and explicit orders to take all the data and put it in massive back-door ridden places for themselves and Russia, potato, potahto

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  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    they will have to get rid of social security now

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  • Grumpyleb@lemmus.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good, let everything go wrong in America, they might eventually wake up and realise what a clusterfuck they’ve allowed themselves to become and actually do something about it.

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    • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Accelerationism like that never works. When it all settles, you get extremely mild improvements for a whole lot of hurt.

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      • Grumpyleb@lemmus.org ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        What do you propose then, I’m asking in good faith. It’s fairly obvious to anyone with common sense that Trump, the GOP and the entire MAGA movement and their ilk need to be removed from power. How can people fight the government that is back by billionaires who control your entire lives?

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    • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gee, thanks from the rest of us who already know that.

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      • Grumpyleb@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Gee, you know and are doing what about it exactly? To the rest of us looking in, it looks like you’re paying lip service to it, a few demonstrations and some cardboard signs? Is that how you manage to overthrow fascism, weekend protests? good luck.

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    • WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is all on purpose. Nothing’s going wrong.

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      • Grumpyleb@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh, i get that, I was talking about the people and their meek protests. The elites are laughing all the way to the bank. End stage capitalism.

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The whole world knows by now that these numbers are good for identifying people, and what a giant data privacy hole it is that they even exist.

    So, no wonder, it had to happen sooner or later.

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    • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The whole world knows by now that these numbers are good for identifying people, and what a giant data privacy hole it is that they even exist.

      No, the giant problem is that you can do everything using only SSN.

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  • toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “I just cloned it onto my server because my connection is not really good!”

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Zero details or sources other than one disgruntled employee, yeh I’m not buying this at all. They probably count azure or AWS as a “random cloud server”.

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    • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, god forbid we have people who aren’t fucking idiots taking care/maintaing our information.

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      • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’ve got him tagged as “likes Elon” just as a heads up.

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