NPR: “A whistleblower says a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names & birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud lacking adequate security...” www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...

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  1. I think Drumpf’s big-ass detention camps are going to be put to much better use in the “after years!” There’s a lot of “criming” going on at the direction of the Criminal in Charge.

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  2. Still trying to understand why we can’t sue about this.

    My private data they’re intentionally leaving unsafe. Done who knows what. How isn’t this a security breach?

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  3. Ross Ulbricht (Dread Pirate Roberts) of Silk Road fame (pardoned 1/21) knows his way around the Dark Web & crypto game--surprised me as I didn't figure 4547 knew about him. I always believed Musk/DOGE used Starlink terminals to exfiltrate agency data & that Elon has a big chunk of it as "insurance."

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  4. This absolutely tracks. And should be prosecuted however possible when we return to an administration that honors the Constitution, the branches of government, and the laws of our country.

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  5. Das ist ein Schock! 300 Millionen Personen, das ist ein riesiger Datenschutzskandal. Aber wer ist der wahre Schuldige? Ist es wirklich die Politik oder diejenigen, die unsere Daten verkauften?

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  6. I am so sick of this shit, I dont care what needs to be done, but I am tired of just reading the headlines and then crickets. Maybe it is time that We The People create a Class Action lawsuit against this entire administration!

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  7. Gee, I'm so totally surprised by this. Who would have ever thought this could happen?

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  8. Hoping a class action firm has associates hard at work on the huge class this suit would provide. Musk, et al as individuals. DOJ won't pursue violations of federal law only a civil suit with discovery of on the self-congratulatory defendants will reveal the sever damage done by DOGE.

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  9. babf.bsky.social profile picture

    Just imagine what Republican could do with that info. Hijack your vote? Skim from your checks? Sell the information down river? Watch your every financial move? Have AI take over your accounts? I doubt this was done by accident, as it is valuable info.

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  10. This will make it a cinch to cancel every woman's bank account and make sure men are the breadwinners again! Women will have to change their lives to rely on men. What could be better for society than returning to patriarchy, this time enforced by the military? (Buy a gun)

    ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with blue eyes and a red top .
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  11. I think we suspected this. Data is a valuable commodity isn’t it.

    This alone is a huge breach of the public’s trust.

    Even MAGA Republicans might not be pleased. They are just as at risk.

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  12. Why would you need a hacker when you can do it in an official capacity!? DOGE has been so many things completely against all kinds of rules. And the damage cannot be undone!

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  13. You have to wonder how much an entire database of absolutely every single American’s social security numbers and identifying details is worth in the black market of today’s horrifyingly compromised hellscape. Fifty dollars? Maybe sixty?

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  14. I predicted this, and we need to protect ourselves and those we love. #cybercrime #cybersecurity #DOGE #Musk

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  15. It’s the same people that are embedded like ticks in the agency now.The techbro-terrorists never left.

    Don’t believe any news org that says DOGE is gone.

    There are least half a dozen DOGE creatures at SSA, starting with the Commissioner - Frank Bisignano

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  16. For the record, Aram Moghaddassi, the SSA's chief information officer, who said this “business need is higher than the security risk” is a 2021 college grad.

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  17. "...former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration.."

    I recall Big Balls 'resigned' from DOGE and went to Social Security Administration to what he could F up there.

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  18. All our social security numbers are out there on the web for the criminals to see. Now if your credit card becomes compromised, the credit card company uses the fast, easy, efficient method of simply killing that 16 digit number and giving you a new number that nobody knows. But not government, NOPE

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  19. Well yea…that anyone thought they were doing anything else is mind boggling, truly.

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  20. k-h1.bsky.social profile picture

    And every fucking one of us should join a class action suit for exposing our data. Motherfuckers

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  21. The minute I heard the official at Treasury resigned because he told DOGE no, I knew it would get to this. These guys have no concept of protecting PII, are willing to use data against us, and will sell to the highest bidder.

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  22. There’s 343M people in America so they copied everyone’s. Cool. We should all be suing them. Every single citizen

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  23. Saw more people were openly flying Nazi flags in Ohio. 23 and me “breach” leaked ancestry records on some folks that were later found for sale on the dark web iirc. This is how it starts. Was wondering if we’d get a shot at ridding the planet of more Nazis. Looks like we just might.

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  24. Everybody involved in the breech needs immediate deportation to Uganda or El Salvador

    Or we should take all parties involved in the unwarranted breech & cane then daily on the Capitol steps as a deterrent for other

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  25. All our data. Not just our SSNs, but addresses, parent names, etc. They were told not to, they did it anyway. AND best of all, it's on a fucking private server. Who the fuck do they think they are? Why do they think they can STEAL my identity

    I want to break some fucking fingers right now.

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  26. Sounds like a MAJOR class action lawsuit could be in the works. (>300 million!) PLUS the cost of reissuing EVERYONE new SS numbers. And the bloody inconvenience of learning new numbers. When DOGE kept talking talking about waste, fraud & abuse, we should have known that they meant to CAUSE it.

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  27. Why would a group of hackers - some of them with criminal records and others with spotty records want the social security data of every US citizen and permanent residents? I can only assume to profit handsomely from this stolen data! These criminals need to be prosecuted immediately!

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  28. But you see this was necessary because otherwise we'd have had to deal with...(checks notes) a trans high schooler playing softball. So we had to elect history's stupidest criminals to high office.

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  29. ELON MUSK & his DOGE mother fuckers stole all of our personal confidential information. Trump put them up to this! Musk carried it out! Impeach Trump Now! But this time kick his traitor ass out of office. Then vote all Republicans out of Congress in midterm elections & all DOGE fired & indicted.

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  30. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ALLOW THE KETAMINE ADDLED SELF-IMPORTANT BLOVIATOR MUSK UNCHECKED ACCESS. IF YOUR FICO SCORES ARE UNDERGOING INEXPLICABLE WILD SWINGS LATELY I'M CONVINCED THIS IS THE REASON.

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