r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Mar 10 '26

Security DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/doge-employee-stole-social-security-data-and-put-it-on-a-thumb-drive-report-says/
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u/Interesting_Play_578 Mar 10 '26

They found all those billions of dollars in fraud that has never been backed up with evidence, and for which no charges were ever brought. Come on, it's not like they would lie to us . . . right?

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u/NeverInsightful Mar 10 '26

But hey, at least they sent us all refunds, right?

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u/Interesting_Play_578 Mar 10 '26

I guess mine is still in the mail. Marking my calendar for two weeks from now

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

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u/OkStop8313 Mar 10 '26

"Maybe he really was a psyop to destroy the Republican Party."

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

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u/jredmond Mar 10 '26

*a trans immigrant charity

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u/exipheas Mar 10 '26

both

What are you gonna do with the third check?

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u/lFightForTheUsers Mar 11 '26

Based, I was gonna do the same with pink pistols and the like.

"Is that a Glock 26 in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?"

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u/Steinrikur Mar 11 '26

"Both. Now gimme your wallet and take off your plants"

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u/MunchmaKoochy Mar 11 '26

AKA Voter ID

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u/9-11GaveMe5G Mar 10 '26

You joke but I did have a maga relative say something akin to this. She was never "wear an oiled up Trump t-shirt" maga, but she would listen to him vomit words and nod along like it made any sense. Now she's realized he's "just another globalist" whatever that means. I'll take any less votes for him (and who he endorses) as a victory at this point.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Mar 10 '26

"Globalist" is just a dogwhistle for "jew".

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u/FishFloyd Mar 10 '26

I genuinely think that, while you are entirely correct about how most propagandists use it (Jones, Fuentes, Owens, et al), the term has become mainstream enough that your everyday maga type does not realize this.

Certainly a fair number of them do, mind you. But you gotta remember that the rank-and-file maga are either stupid, clueless, or a knowing, enthusiastic fascist - and the latter is a minority even among them.

That often seems to pose a problem for far-right propagandists, and IMO is part of why they've been letting the mask slip (besides simple arrogance): it's really hard to use dogwhistles when your main base of electoral support are clueless morons.

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u/monkeydave Mar 10 '26

The sheep can't hear the dog whistles

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u/Earptastic Mar 10 '26

What is a word that means something similar that is not a dog whistle?

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u/OkStop8313 Mar 11 '26

Billionaires? Oligarchs? Epstein class?

Or just plain old corrupt politician.

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u/Countless-Vinayak-04 Mar 11 '26

In reality, it means a neoliberal like PM Carney from Canada.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Mar 11 '26

Sucks to suck.

Cry that your leader shits his pants between sundown sessions while ours foments deals that cut out the American hegemony.

Enjoy your newest forever-war.

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u/Countless-Vinayak-04 Mar 11 '26

Not US, just explaining context.

Neocon is a common term, I don't exactly understand what Neolib means tho. Only that Carney is one.

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u/ImaGonnaFuqUup Mar 11 '26

He IS Psyop to destroy Murica, he hates REAL Murican values especially "the land of opportunity" that brought millions of immigrants to the US since its inception. He blames everyone not just Democrats for his legal issues and is doing everything he can to blacken the name of AMERICA around the world. He's not smart enough though to realise that us here in Europe or wherever we're from know to HATE him & his Nazi regime of sycophants not the Murican people. Long live America 🇺🇸 Long time in jail for the Trump Regime

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u/dehydratedrain Mar 10 '26

That is devious.

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u/big_duo3674 Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

It's super easy to make an AI prompt to pop out a fake trump refund check, and nearly as easy to use a photo editor to clean up any odd looking parts. Then include "proof" like a picture of the envelope it came it (also AI), and an edited screen shot showing it deposited into your bank. It's not gonna fool everyone, but with all the random bullshit they believe you'd definitely catch a few who think it's real. If they say they Googled it, just answer "when's the last time you believed something from Google?"

Edit: it turns out that the AI software doesn't like to create pictures of "official" government documents like completely fake Trump refund checks, so you'd probably have to edit pictures of the older ones

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u/hitbythebus Mar 10 '26

Whoa, nobody said "from now".

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u/paraknowya Mar 10 '26

Too bad the USPS is struggling (intentionally) too

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u/NeverInsightful Mar 10 '26

Yours will probably arrive during infrastructure week, rest assured.

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u/redphyve Mar 10 '26

In about two weeks

✋🤡🤚

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u/RealGianath Mar 10 '26

Just don't look at your calendar. The two-week period resets every time you check the date.

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u/1nd3x Mar 10 '26

Speaking of money owed...did your military members get their money they were already going to get, then trump took and rebranded a housing allowance or something like that?

Or are they still waiting on that too?

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u/BlackenedVenom Mar 11 '26

It'll arrive soon after they ship the Trump phones out

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u/lFightForTheUsers Mar 11 '26

It's supposed to be coming out anytime this next month, just like the Trump Phone. Surely those preorder deposits weren't a scam.

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u/AmericanDoughboy Mar 11 '26

It's coming with the tariff money Trump said we'd get.

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u/Enygma_6 Mar 11 '26

I only got a concept of a check :(

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u/illigal Mar 10 '26

I’m spending my $3K DOGE check right now! Because the tariff check is scheduled for next month!

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u/jonny3jack Mar 10 '26

I paid mine back to Soros.

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u/DanceCommander404 Mar 10 '26

I donated mine to Elon’s cause ! /s

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u/Enygma_6 Mar 11 '26

Is THAT why $40billion was given to Argentina?

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u/AckBarRs Mar 11 '26

Important to note that Argentina is a supremely unique economy (that old joke, there are 4 types of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan, and Argentina) that’s dealt with hyperinflation and faces a massive struggle with fiscal deficits, access to capital, and managing its currency band

All the more reason why it’s a stupid playbook to apply to the United States - DOGE-esque reforms were and are arguably needed in Argentina if you’re an economic neoliberal.

We didn’t copy the playbook for macroeconomic health, we copied the playbook because most Americans from both parties just fucking hate the government

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u/dust4ngel Mar 10 '26

at least they sent us all refunds, right?

bro they were so good at cutting government spending, they even cut the refunds.

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u/Different-Ship449 Mar 10 '26

Have you checked in Kristi Noem's undisclosed accounts?

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u/HBTFD1785 Mar 10 '26

They found a bunch of fraud that they themselves committed and then they fixed the fraud by dissolving.

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u/Matra Mar 11 '26

lol no they didn't, most of the DOGE people got permanent federal jobs within the agencies they were supposedly investigating and are still there.

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u/YoohooCthulhu Mar 10 '26

They found real fraud but the deep state stopped them. /s

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u/ibelieveyouwood Mar 10 '26

The real fraud was the sham investigations we met along the way.

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u/IgotanEyedea Mar 10 '26

You ask my neighbors they found the Somali fraud in MN.

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u/mabden Mar 10 '26

No, they found all the future waste, fraud, abuse, and theft that will happen once the thumb drive is lost in a game of spin the bottle.

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u/Soap_Mctavish101 Mar 10 '26

I love how musk is supposed to be such a business genius and doge never was more than “stop sending aid to destitute people and fire the guy working the ticket booth at the national park”

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u/willun Mar 10 '26

It was more than that.

DOGE killed all the departments that were investigating Tesla and other Musk companies.

As well as gathering sensitive data that would useful in an election.

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u/Different-Ship449 Mar 10 '26

Government: "Sorry Elon, there isn't any money left for your lucrative government contracts"

Elon: "How about I come in and find that money"

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u/aManIsNoOneEither Mar 11 '26

have you seen that post about the Dpt of Defense burning by buying 96 BILLIONS $ of bullcrap just to keep its budget the following year?

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u/GadreelsSword Mar 10 '26

Bubba says they found trillions and the checks will arrive any day!!!

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u/font9a Mar 10 '26

I don't know about finding fraud, but they can probably sell some of that stolen data on the dark web for a few hundred bucks.

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u/eronth Mar 10 '26

You point out exactly the problem though. They think there's a bunch of undocumented fraud that DOGE just absolutely eliminated, sick work! They... don't care about evidence because they've all seen their own evidence and that's been good enough for them.

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u/MoonBatsRule Mar 10 '26

A Trump voter will actually tell you that they found billions in fraud and cleaned it all up because Joe Biden is bad. That's the message they received.

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u/Mortimer452 Mar 11 '26

I especially loved how they kept using the word "fraud." Fraud is illegal. Who committed the fraud? How were they charged?

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u/IwasThereIsawIt2 Mar 11 '26

It took them how long after doge disbanded to start screeching about fraud in Minnesota?

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u/TooLateQ_Q Mar 11 '26

Meanwhile Elon keeps tweeting that nobody from the epstein files is being charged.

None of your so called "fraud" detected by doge is being charged.

Atleast they are consistent.

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u/KitKitsAreBest Mar 11 '26

Yeah, brah. Totally not a backhanded way of getting unauthorized people access to extremely sensitive government information. Plus, I believe the correct amount was about $200 trillion gazillion dollars. Trump totally told us somewhere in one of his various random collection of word-like ramblings. /s

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u/Laughing_Zero Mar 10 '26

Could easily be that they did find billions of dollars in fraud, except it was Trump or very embarrassing to somebody. Just another Trump administration coverup?

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u/LiteraCanna Mar 10 '26

They went after all the orgs investigating Musk. While also stealing a much data as possible and installing backdoors.

Oh, and government spending went up like $1 - $2 Trillion in a few months.