Trump Administration Inadvertently Exposed Healthcare Providers' Social Security Numbers in Publicly Accessible Database

🔗 https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/medicare-security-breach-exposes-social-security-numbers-1794764

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u/DataDrifter_01 • 2 days ago

Healthcare providers? So doctors, nurses, admin staff. Their SSNs just floating around in a *publicly accessible database*. And they call it 'inadvertently'. What kind of security negligence does it take for that to happen?

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u/mango_storm • 2 days ago

Thoughts and prayers to their credit scores.

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u/NightOwlDev • 2 days ago

Honestly, it's probably some badly configured S3 bucket or an old FTP server left open from some legacy system. Happens more than people realize, but usually not with government data involving SSNs.

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u/PixelPioneer • 2 days ago

FTP server? In the 2010s/2020s? Seriously? That's just wild.

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u/QuietReader42 • 1 days ago

Every few months it's another one of these. Doesn't matter which admin is in power, just a different flavor of incompetence leading to our data being leaked. When will they actually get serious about this stuff?

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