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  People here do care - because it was against "them", the people they perceive as the enemy, this leak is celebrated here at /r/politics. Just read the replies here to see for yourself.
context: Equifax data breach netted me $5.21. I'm sure the government will pay the going rate for the oops. >
  
  I submitted some additional categories of stuff on that claim that supposedly would've made it worth several hundred dollars. I got a check from them a couple weeks ago for $22, sigh. >
  
  Same, got $12.50... >
  
  Republicans didn't want social security... anyways. >
  
  You have a point. >
  
  These things happen. >
  
  Name checks out. >
  
  We are doomed.. >
  
  Dammit. The two of you. >
  
  This is getting out of hand. >
  
  Yeah. There's two of them. >
  
  Thoughts and prayers 🙏🏻 >
  
  While I assume that this wasn't malicious, you can bet that the far-right will be up in arms over this error. >
  
  Go to the con sub. They're far more concerned about this than they are about trump wandering off with classified and sensitive material. >
  
  A Social Security Number is a joke when used for securing anything. It's absolutely ridiculous that we don't have a better system in place. Maybe this will lead to them passing legislation that actually protects. Not going to hold my breath though. >
  
  We don’t because of pushback to having a National ID, so we’ve made social security a de facto National ID >
  
  So, in other words, stupid people don't want a national ID so we use a different number with zero security as a national ID. Checks out. >
  
  Yep, the American way! >
  
  Big Question time:
   
  
  The Social Security numbers appeared as part of the White House visitor logs published by the committee. Many Social Security numbers in the logs were redacted, but around 1,900 of them were not. The numbers were buried several hundred rows down in the second tab of the spreadsheet, which represented visits to the White House on a day in December 2020.
  
   
  Why did Trump's White House need this information in the first place?
   
  
  The White House said in a letter last year that the committee agreed to accept the records — in redacted form — from the National Archives. In a Feb. 15, 2022, letter to Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, then-White House lawyer Dana Remus wrote that the Jan. 6 committee “agreed to accept production of these records with birth dates and social security numbers removed” in order to “ensure that personal privacy information is not inadvertently disclosed.”
  The National Archives appeared to cast some blame on the Jan. 6 committee. The Archives’s public and media communications office told The Post in a statement that “while we took affirmative steps to redact personally identifiable information (PII), we did not expect that the Committee would publicly release records that still may have contained PII.”
  
   
  Why wasn't this information not redacted before hand off? >
  
  Yeah well, Biden magically de-classified them so it's all good.. >
  
  I simultaneously hope that this was an absolute earnest error and the republican monsters who are afflicted suffer the fear their constituents have to deal with on a quarter of their budget. >
  
  Error?? Ya, just like the old fool in the WH deliberately not making a trip to the border nor doing anything to STOP the influx of free flowing ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. That was just an earnest error as well. >
  
  we get it, you don’t like Latinos >
  
  With his SSN and tax returns, someone could steal Trump’s identity and ruin his credit rating. >
  
  Lol, as if anyone is willing to give him an actual loan ever again. It's all money laundering from here. >
  
  
  It's all money laundering from here. 
  
  From here? Pretty much all along. You can't run an Atlantic City casino bankrupt without trying. >
  
  Too bad, so sad.
  Thoughts and prayers for the victims and their bank accounts. >
  
  This is going to be blown up to be the biggest human tragedy since Hiroshima by the right. >
  
  Oh no! How will these fanatics give more money to trump if their identity is stolen! WHAT A TRAVESTY! >
  
  These damn paywalls!
  I will be back >
  
  You the real MVP! >
  
  I find it crazy that nobody here seems to care about the government carelessness regarding sensitive information.
  If people commit a crime, then charge them with a crime, but the government has a responsibility to treat this information with more care.