What a perfect time to stop using social security numbers for specifically the thing they were not designed to be.

All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed

Yeah, sure, and winged monkeys may fly out of my ass. But I doubt it'll happen.

They actually need to publicly release everyone’s SSNs so that they can’t be used for authentication anymore, which they never should have been

Borges alleges that a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, copied the government’s master Social Security database into a cloud system that lacked normal oversight.

I don't know if I'd call them a little-known team (they're infamous for basically fraud), but point taken.

Regardless of whether or not they are breached, the social security numbering system needs to be changed because it is far from a secure number.

more than 300 million Americans

Last I checked, that's all of 'em

Thanks a lot DOGE. So clearly Elon Musk gives every American compensation, we get new numbers and have all of our credit history wiped clean to start new right? Bc otherwise this just means we've all been massively fucked by Trump and his band of idiots

Lmao, like they'd do that

DOGE infiltrated months ago and you are just reacting now?

I'm less upset that all SSNs might end up compromised and more upset that no one is going to get punished for it. If a career Federal Employee did this, they would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

But since it was Elon's friends who did it, everyone in power will just shrug and say "who knew this would be such a big deal"....

0 chance they hand out new SSID, that's money and work and confusion, imagine every medical entity changing over that code?

First, the govt would need to make a lookup table.

Anyone that used their old ssid for something, or a system that had the old ssid in it, would need a translation to the new ID.

Sooo at what point could you safely stop accepting old ID's because they're all changed over? Never. Some random medical provider in east bumfuck, TN, still uses your SSID from their own paper copy. So you're stuck accepting old SSIDs and translating them into new SSIDs on demand, which completely breaks any security of changing IDs in the first place.

There have been enough nexus/credit leaks over the years, it's hardly news that those ID's are compromised.

more than 300 million Americans

I know wiggle room is the gold standard of journalism... but you can just say "all Americans".

File a lawsuit against fucking DOGE and MAGA.

ssn was never intended to be a form of identification. it was specifically decided that it would not be used as a form of identification by the administration that controlled it

SIEZE Elons assets arrest try him and repair the damage to American infrastructure with his money

Are we efficient yet?

lol I can confirm this, just gave my ssn to a reputable company’s hr system. And it says that info is already exists..

I have long predicted the entire goal of DOGE was to feed more data to Palantir, and clearly no other company is ever going to be given this level of security clearance, so they become dependent on it forever. I think this view is gaining more traction from what I've seen.

I will keep laughing at Americans till they manage to get their broken democracy to establish an ID system like every other country.

I'm sure that this will be more expensive to fix than whatever "savings" Elons ghouls have managed to bring.

Just add a 1 at the end of them all. That's what I do when my work says I have to change my password.

They “leak” the numbers, then only issue new ones to the people they like…

Instead of new SSNs, how about we maybe the number less risky in general?

It should never have served as a "secret". Authenticating someone needs more than some account number. SSN should be more of a "username", not a password.