All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat - Lemmy.World

According to a protected disclosure filed with the Office of Special Counsel, Borges told the Government Accountability Project that DOGE officials working at Social Security created a “live copy” of the country’s Social Security records in a separate cloud environment that sidestepped usual security checks. The group says those lapses put the Social Security information of more than 300 million Americans at risk.