Lawsuit claims hackers accessed billions of records, including social security numbers, by breaching background check company. Doge team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. Charles borges, the social security administration’s chief data officer, said doge members uploaded a database containing records of all social security numbers issued by the federal government. A class action lawsuit has brought attention to an alleged hack of a data broker and a dataset that contains personal information, including social security numbers. If true, reports suggest all americans may have had valuable personal information compromised — including full names, current and past addresses, social security numbers and information on.
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