Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.”

The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.

129

so this sucks but anyone with half a clue has been urging ditching SSNs as secure personal identifiers since... idk, the 1980s?

The military hasn't used SSNs as secure personal identifiers for decades, for example.

Replies

No replies yet