I hate to link to Bezo's WaPo - even via paywall busting archive dot is link, but they have important details on the DOGE Social Security Breach
They wanted full access to the massive database containing not just the Numident files, but two others containing extensive information about anyone with a Social Security number, including work history; spouses and dependents; financial and banking information; marital status; and immigration and citizenship status — and detailed information about anyone who applies for or receives retirement or disability benefits.
Social Security would normally not provide this access “even to our most skilled and highly trained experts,” she wrote.
The pushback from career officials led Russo to appeal to the chief information officer at the White House budget office, a political appointee, who wrote an opinion giving DOGE workers access to whatever they wanted.
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We have indeed all been compromised.