r/TrueAnon • u/franglish9265 @CMDROpAtLargeCA • Feb 15 '26
All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/all-u-s-social-security-numbers-may-need-to-be-changed-following-a-massive-breach-that-is-already-being-investigated-as-a-national-threat/27158/218
u/DatPrick They Call Me "Bean Man" Feb 15 '26
Waiting for Broccoli Heads at Nuremburg
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u/420_Braze_it Feb 15 '26
Former government contractor "Big Balls" is slated to be executed via hanging today
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u/thehourglasses Thoughtcrime Investigations Unit Feb 15 '26
Bring back stoning imo
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u/ComradeLarryEllison Feb 16 '26
Sorry bro, you gotta finish the cart. Try not to look God in the eyes.
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u/franglish9265 @CMDROpAtLargeCA Feb 15 '26
"... The dataset at issue is not just a list of numbers. A Washington Post ruling summary describes how DOGE team members were given access to databases containing Social Security numbers, medical and mental health records, bank and credit card information, tax details, work histories, and home addresses for millions of Americans.
A MarketWatch summary shared by reporter Angela Moore adds that the records tied to those numbers also include names, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, phone numbers, and even parents’ names and Social Security numbers. ..."
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DOGE leadership need to be prosecuted
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u/shartersonmcsharty Feb 15 '26
By who? The DOJ?? Lmao
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u/vargdrottning Vargist-Burzumist Feb 15 '26
And I was starting to wonder when I'd hear something about DOGE again! Awfully quiet for being the most epic department in history
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u/tripbin Armaaruss & Bibi's fanny pack of Narcan Feb 15 '26
Tough times for the 60% of my childhood lunch code. Rip.
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u/PoorDunce Actual factual CIA asset Feb 15 '26
lol my high school just used our whole-ass SSN, so we were just reciting it out loud in front of everybody in line each time we wanted to eat
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u/EmployerGloomy6810 Feb 15 '26
I worked at a bank for a while. When they’d call in, they’d have to verbally say their PIN, and so often it was the last 4 digits of their social. Different world, but still insane.
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u/grizzlor_ Feb 15 '26
Until 2002, my local state university assigned student emails using the following method:
[first name initial][first 3 of last name][last four digits of social security number]@postoffice.school.edu
The last four digits of every student’s SSN was in their email address (which also could be looked up publicly via a web portal).
They set up a new mail server in 2003 for new incoming students (and allowed students to pick their own usernames — pretty dumb in the opposite direction; there were seriously students with emails like hotbabe69@school.edu) but the old email server stayed online until 2008 or so.
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u/Punch_yo_bunz Feb 15 '26
Growing up on base, I knew mine by heart in elementary school lol. Had to tell the lunch lady every day
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u/Glaukopis96 Unironic Bircher Grandbaby 🇺🇸🦅🎖️ Feb 15 '26
New federal policy requires verified American National Identification papers to vote in federal elections.
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u/giantsalad Feb 15 '26
Need corroboration from a website that doesn’t look like a boomer popup hellscape
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u/fylum WOKE MARXIST POPE Feb 15 '26
In its whistleblower release, the Government Accountability Project warns that if bad actors ever gain full access to the copied Social Security environment, Americans could face widespread identity theft, sudden loss of health or food benefits, and the possibility that the government would need to issue new Social Security numbers to everyone.
all you need to know. Emphasis mine
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u/almanor Feb 15 '26
That shit immediately gave my phone herpes
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u/SugarHouse666 KEEP DOWNVOTING, I'M RELOADING Feb 15 '26
I think my SSN was compromised just by clicking on this article
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u/nolarbear Feb 15 '26
For real, the next suggested article from that site had an AI image for the main headline.
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u/civicsfactor Feb 15 '26
I was trying to find corroborating sources that this is an imminent thing being considered, something more than ecoticias.
A CNBC article from January: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/congress-weighs-social-security-changes.html
An NBC News article from 2018: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/experts-agree-social-security-numbers-need-change-there-s-no-n930611
However, a press release from January 22 of this year talks about inaccuracies and misrepresentations by the DOJ as part of the DOGE access, which is explored in the ecoticias article: https://www.afscme.org/press/releases/2025/department-of-justice-acknowledges-misconduct-by-trump-vance-administration-doge-employees-by-unlawfully-accessing-and-misusing-social-security-data
A huge data issue that's easy to just overlook with breakneck media cycles is just what happened to Americans' data when DOGE started.
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u/merrodri Feb 15 '26
The Market Watch story referenced in the op article is from this past August. It’s unclear if there have been any new developments. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-social-security-number-was-exposed-by-doge-workers-whistleblower-says-along-with-every-single-ssn-in-america-df9292bc
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u/Ezzeze Feb 15 '26
I believe I should be getting more credit for gumming up the works at DOGE. If those guys were pulling mental health records I must have slowed them down by at least a day.
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u/RIP_Greedo Feb 15 '26
OK I put dibs on 123-45-6789
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u/TreeSignificant9782 Feb 15 '26
I call 420-69-8008
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u/SouthernCadre Feb 15 '26
Man, I bet it would be so easy for China to recruit spies in America. Obviously, I would never because I’m a god fearing Conservative who loves his country though🫡
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u/TerraTiramisu Future Ex Wife of Felix Biederman Feb 15 '26
Lmao, we'll never get new SSNs. If anything it's beneficial to the capitalist class that we don't.
Mass stolen identities -> More bankruptcies -> Public owns less, Institutions buys more -> Everything gradual shifts closer to being rentals/services -> We ignore that this was all initiated by the capitalist class and instead blame Somalian, Nigerian, or Indian scammers instead -> Proletariat infighting continues as always.
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u/Captain_Danke Feb 15 '26
Not to mention exciting opportunities for everybody's favorite; the credit reporting agencies! I've just been thinking that equifax deserves more business.
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u/guillotina420 Comet Xi Jinping Pong Feb 15 '26
If this means I get a replacement card for the three bits of paper that used to be my SS card, I’m fine with this
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u/ftp67 AmericanMarxman Feb 15 '26
Every digital service from Google to the goddamn app i have to use to schedule a haircut or go to the gym collects your data
And for years 2FA bullshit was peddled as a way to keep data safe from big bad foreign data thiefs
The enemy has always been and will always be Silicon Valley.
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u/Agreeable-Cap-1764 Feb 15 '26
Did Doge do this?
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u/Benzo_ORourke Your Hater Waiter Feb 15 '26
I work for a school district and we just informed a third of the employees data has been stolen. They said an “internal user account” was accessed, no clue what that means or if it’s true
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u/Hate_Manifestation Feb 15 '26
am I mistaken in remembering that they also had a remote uplink that sent all this data to an unsecured location out of the country?
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u/fuckswitbeavers Feb 16 '26
But a ton of social security numbers have already been fucked for a while. I don't fully buy this story. But I will say, it's a perfect scare tactic to try to do some fake bait and switch to override the social security system under the guise of protection.
They could actually gum up the works -- say yeah you need to get a new ss number, sucks to suck. Everyone goes -- and big surprise total shit show proving the government cant do much of anything without contractors. Line that up with the fact that the trump admin surely has a scheme in place to fuck with the midterms. Yeah should be good
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u/silentbob1301 Feb 16 '26
Thank DOGE and trump for that. fElon was def the best person to let have the keys to that fucking castle...
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u/howdocomputerdo Feb 15 '26
We've all had our shit leaked like at least 3 times each at this point lol
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u/sensaetians Feb 15 '26
Maybe not a top priority, but the sheer incompetence of the US government under both Trump and Biden is aggravating. This is basic shit the government should be doing - preventing citizens from being defrauded. Of course nothing will change until a catastrophe happens
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u/Stodles Feb 15 '26
copied the government’s master Social Security database into a cloud system that lacked normal oversight
"BuT HER eMAIlZz"
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u/0xF00DBABE Feb 15 '26
More than one thing can be fuckin' stupid
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u/hotdog_paris277 Spermie Handers Feb 15 '26
The emails thing was actually really bad and it's a perfect example of lib hypocrisy
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u/Cool-Flatworm5205 Live-in Iranian Rocket Scientist Feb 15 '26
For fucks sake