A whistleblower complaint alleges that doge staffers uploaded a copy of all federal social security numbers and information to an unsecured server in june. A whistleblower says that a former senior doge official now at the social security administration copied the social security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million americans to a private. Lawsuit claims hackers accessed billions of records, including social security numbers, by breaching background check company. The move “potentially violated multiple federal statutes” and could cause a “catastrophic impact,” the whistleblower warned, according to the new york times. Department of government efficiency employees at the social security administration put the records of more than 300 million americans at risk by creating a copy of the data in a vulnerable cloud. Potential leaks of certain data involved names, email addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers and mailing addresses in april and this summer.
Billion of records may have been affected by the recent data breach Here's how to check if it includes your information. The hacking group usdod claimed it had stolen personal records, including social security info, of 2.9 billion people from national public data. National public data confirmed a data breach leaked names, addresses, and social security numbers, without saying how many people were affected. National public data, a company that compiles public information to supply background checks, has confirmed it suffered a data breach. A sister site with publicly available admin passwords stored in plaintext suggests that national public data, the source of a major data breach, may not have had great security.
Labor and retiree groups sued ssa over the agency's cooperation with doge, though an appeals panel upheld the department's access. Remember that data broker nobody had ever heard of, but managed to leak a database which contained the data of some 2.9 billion people It’s back, and this time with a search function National public data suffered an alleged breach in 2024 against a data base that, it turned out, carried 272 million unique social security numbers (ssns.) granted, that there are limits to the safety of using. Npd data breach leaks social security numbers and other pii onto dark web High risk of identity theft, which can lead to fraudulently opened credit accounts, loans, and other financial activities
It's important to monitor your credit reports You might want to consider placing a fraud alert or credit freeze on your social security number.
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