FinWise data breach shows why encryption is your last defense

The FinWise breach shows that when insider threats strike, encryption is the last line of defense. Penta Security's D.AMO ...

EY reportedly leaked a massive 4TB database online - exposing company secrets online for all to see

Ernst & Young (EY), one of the world’s biggest accounting companies, kept a complete database backup on the public internet, ...

Yiru Zhang Advances Database Systems Through Big Data Optimization and Security Architecture

A comprehensive database optimization framework integrating connection pooling, distributed caching, and multi-layer encryption achieves ...

DOGE put your Social Security Number on a cloud server with up to a 65% risk of getting hacked: Senate report

The unsecured database also holds dates of birth, parents' names, and other personal information—and Russia, China, and Iran ...
Ars Technica

DOGE accused of copying entire Social Security database to insecure cloud system

A Social Security Administration (SSA) official alleged in a whistleblower disclosure that DOGE officials created “a live copy of the country’s Social Security information in a cloud environment that ...
Time

Millions of Americans’ Social Security Data Put at Risk by DOGE, a Whistleblower Says. Here’s What to Know

The seal of the Social Security Administration outside the agency's headquarters in Woodlawn, Maryland, on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. The seal of the Social Security Administration outside the agency's ...
Boing Boing on MSNOpinion

Homeland Security builds Orwellian surveillance database

The Department of Homeland Security has decided that hoarding your Social Security data, passport info, and visa records in ...
The Hill

DOGE put Social Security data in ‘vulnerable cloud environment’: Whistleblower

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) put important Social Security data in a “vulnerable cloud environment,” a whistleblower with the Social Security Administration (SSA) said in a report ...
CSOonline

Whistleblower: DOGE put Social Security database covering 300 million Americans on insecure cloud

The complaint accuses DOGE of bypassing security protocols to move Americans’ sensitive personal data outside federal oversight and onto an insecure AWS cloud instance, potentially violating ...
The Washington Post

Social Security whistleblower quits after saying Americans’ data was compromised

A Social Security Administration official responsible for overseeing the agency’s data access resigned from his role on Friday, days after submitting a whistleblower complaint alleging that U.S. DOGE ...
FedScoop

Social Security’s chief data officer blows the whistle on DOGE; Adele Merrit resigns as NIH’s CIO

Department of Government Efficiency members stored a copy of a massive Social Security Administration database in a “vulnerable” custom cloud environment, putting more than 300 million people’s ...
THE WEEK

DOGE put Social Security data at risk, official says

DOGE operatives uploaded a full copy of a crucial Social Security database to a vulnerable cloud server only they can access, putting the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans at ...