{"id":187725,"date":"2026-02-16T03:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/doge-may-have-misused-social-security-data-doj-admits\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T03:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:30:09","slug":"doge-may-have-misused-social-security-data-doj-admits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/doge-may-have-misused-social-security-data-doj-admits\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGE May Have Misused Social Security Data, DOJ Admits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/security-news-this-week-doge-may-have-misused-social-security-data-doj-admits\/\">DOGE May Have Misused Social Security Data, DOJ Admits<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/security-news-this-week-doge-may-have-misused-social-security-data-doj-admits\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/security-news-this-week-doge-may-have-misused-social-security-data-doj-admits\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-24 06:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wired.com\">www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe article discusses various concerning issues related to law enforcement practices, data security breaches, and misuse of personal information in recent news. It highlights illegal activities by law enforcement, including bypassing constitutional protections by conducting warrantless home raids by ICE and the Department of Government Efficiency potentially sharing Social Security data for political purposes. The article also reports on the alarming discovery of a vulnerable quantum sensor by Customs and Border Protection, unsecured databases leaking millions of user login credentials, and Under Armour experiencing a data breach affecting millions. Additionally, it delves into Microsoft&#8217;s practice of handing out decryption keys to law enforcement, creating significant data access issues, and the hack of Iran&#8217;s state TV by anti-regime activists as the country faced internet shutdowns during protests. The piece concludes by emphasizing the need for vigilance amidst these repeated threats to privacy and security.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ICE authorities bypassing constitutional requirements for warrantless home raids.<\/li>\n<li>Breach of Social Security data by government operatives for possibly politically motivated sharing.<\/li>\n<li>Discovery of an unsecured database with 149 million leaked user credentials.<\/li>\n<li>Under Armour data breach exposing millions of customer personal details.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft handing out decryption keys to law enforcement, compromising user data security.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOGE May Have Misused Social Security Data, DOJ Admits https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/security-news-this-week-doge-may-have-misused-social-security-data-doj-admits\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-24 06:30:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/6973b171c4eae71ac8e67084\/191:100\/w_1280,c_limit\/sec-roundup-doge-data-2217853337.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,28],"class_list":["post-187725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-data-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187727,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187725\/revisions\/187727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}