All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat
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A whistleblower warns a mishandled cloud copy of Social Security data could put millions at lifelong risk and force SSNs to change.
  • balsoft@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    It is logistically impossible for an entire country of 300 million to do that in any reasonable timeframe.

    The only two options going forward are: (1) abandon SSNs as a method of identity verification and switch to something better, (2) drown in continuous scams and identity theft forever.

    Since the former requires a government that is competent at governance and a population that can adapt to basic administrative changes, the US is now stuck with the latter for the foreseeable.