Social Security says Americans’ personal data is secure, contradicting whistleblower

The Social Security Administration said an internal review found that its database containing the sensitive personal information of all Americans with a Social Security number remains secure and was not hacked, leaked or compromised, despite a whistleblower’s allegation that the information had been copied to a private cloud database. “I can confirm, based on the agency’s thorough review, that neither the Numident database nor any of its data has been accessed, leaked, hacked or shared in any unauthorized fashion,” Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano said Tuesday in a letter to...