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Social Security

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34 articles accelerating

Social Security has appeared in 34 articles since 2015-07. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 4 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside DOGE, Americans, Mastodon, Elon Musk.

Articles
34
mentions
Velocity
+100.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+1.500
velocity change
Sources
20
publications

Coverage Timeline

2026-03-11
Washington Post 16 related

Sources: the US Social Security inspector general is investigating claims that an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his private employer

The Social Security inspector general's office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data …

2026-03-10
Washington Post 5 related

Sources: US Social Security's inspector general is investigating claims an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his new private employer

The Social Security inspector general's office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data …

2025-08-28
The Verge 40 related

Anthropic's Threat Intelligence report for August says Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a “vibe-hacking” data extortion scheme

and It Could Happen Again Vyom Ramani / Digit : Vibe-hacking based AI attack turned Claude against its safeguard: Here's how Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.2503: Anthropic's Claude helps ...

2025-08-26
New York Times 2 related

SSA's chief data officer files a whistleblower complaint that DOGE uploaded a database with every Social Security number ever issued to an insecure cloud server

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server …

2025-05-08
Washington Post 2 related

Sources: DOGE plans to build a centralized database with troves of personal info about millions of US residents, violating or disregarding security protocols

www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202... @galetstrong : Federal data is now along the lines of something you might find in The National Enquirer, not actual data.  —  Donald Trump's Information Warfare...

2025-04-03
Gizmodo 1 related

Key parts of the US' Social Security website have crashed in the past week as phone support is reduced; report: the site was down four times in 10 days in March

gizmodo.com/social-secur... Isabel Santos / @isabelsantos : Social Security website is crashing, and it's affecting millions of folks who rely on it for help!  This is not just a tech problem it's a m...

2025-03-28
Wired 2 related

Sources: DOGE aims to migrate all Social Security Administration's computer systems off COBOL in a matter of months, risking the integrity of the system

Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language.

2025-02-25
TechCrunch 7 related

Employee screening company DISA confirms a data breach in February 2024, found in April 2024, affecting 3.3M+ people and including Social Security numbers

DISA Global Solutions, a U.S.-based provider of employee screening services, has said it suffered a data breach that affects more than 3.3 million people.

2025-02-04
Musk Watch 8 related

An OPM staffer believes that a server Elon Musk's associates installed, with access to federal staff info like SSNs, has not had a Privacy Impact Assessment

www.wired.com/story/elon-m... Tim Marchman / @timmarchman : NEW: A 25-year-old who's worked for Elon Musk companies now has direct control over a Treasury system disbursements from which amount to a f...

Wired 15 related

Sources: Marko Elez, a 25-year-old Elon Musk-linked engineer, has admin privileges over Treasury Department code that controls Social Security payments and more

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department.  It's also where, sources say …

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TEXXR tracks 31 Techmeme articles mentioning Social Security, dating back to June 2015. The biggest stories include Experian reports data breach affecting personal information including social security... and T-Mobile says hackers stole data like names, email addresses, account numbers of about 2M.... Frequently covered alongside DOGE and Social Security Numbers.

Key Moments

2025Q1enterprise -100pts; safety +25pts; developer +25pts
2025Q2safety -25pts; developer -25pts; consumer +33pts
2025Q4consumer -33pts; funding +100pts; regulation +100pts

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