DOGE Goons Cause Major Crash to Social Security Site

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The DOGE goons made another tech blunder early this week when they crashed the website of the agency that gives nearly $1.6 trillion to almost 70 million Americans every year.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) site has gone largely offline for countless beneficiaries who are worried that their personal information has been entirely deleted.

On Monday several people reported being unable to access their online accounts, weeks after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) began hacking the agency apart from the inside. The cyber glitch has largely prevented elderly people and low-income families from accessing and managing their information, applying for government services, making or receiving payments, and much more.

The mistake was likely made after Musk’s DOGE team launched untested software on the site. The squad behind DOGE includes a crew of six young men under the age of 26 (including a 19-year-old college freshman).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/doge-goons-cause-major-crash-to-social-security-site/ar-AA1Ct013

Millions of Social Security recipients got erroneous messages that their payments stopped as computer systems keep glitching

The Social Security Administrations' already-fragile computer systems are suffering more glitches than usual, according to reports. One breakdown recently resulted in the agency sending an erroneous message to millions of recipients that said their payments had ended, creating panic. That's as critical IT staff are leaving amid steep payroll cuts.

The Social Security Administration's already-fragile and antiquated technology has been having more glitches than usual, sources told CNN.

One example is last week's outage of the MySSA portal, which allows Social Security recipients to manage their benefits online. Other cloud and internal systems were also impacted.

That came as Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has been slashing payrolls across the federal government. As a result, IT staff who maintain critical systems are shrinking and less able to fix problems. Meanwhile, SSA has been steering more people online as employees are cut and phone service is curbed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/millions-of-social-security-recipients-got-erroneous-messages-that-their-payments-stopped-as-computer-systems-keep-glitching/ar-AA1Ctt0p

I accessed MySSA last week with no problem. Plus, my checking account says I have a pending payment due tomorrow from SS.

It's not that the technology is fragile. It's that few younger people know anything about a COBOL based system.

[chowder66]

1. Gee I sure hope they hired better IT people at SpaceX.

[vapor2]

2. I previously mentioned that I thought

that Judge Hollander restricted these goons from being in the building PLUS Elizabeth Warren said there is now a Dem War Room so why are these goons still hacking etc. They are STEALING OUR EARNINGS AND NO ONE IS STOPPING THEM

[Quakerfriend]

3. My SSA has been down for the past 48 hrs.

Attempts to access my account get the message
“bad request” .

[New Breed Leader]

4. Site is working fine for me

(not saying this article is inaccurate, just saying)

[SWBTATTReg]

5. And as time goes on, these systems written long ago, and thus, very expensive to rewrite in other languages besides

COBOL, it won't happen as fast as these idiots claim.

As one being in the programming world for 45 years, it won't happen. I guarantee it.

And you right, COBOL was one of roughly 10 languages I knew when I initially coded and programmed, and there were / are literally tens of billions lines of code out there.

It simply costs too much to recode and test, it would take forever.

Muskrat and his doge idiots are using ball preen hammers to recode a tiny tiny portion of the existing code and are full of BS when they claim otherwise.

And they're/Industry is still desperate to hire COBOL programmers if any of us are still alive out there.

Besides, I think I speak for a lot of us that we wouldn't work for muskrat or his doge crew, you couldn't pay us enough.

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It's not that the technology is fragile. It's that few younger people know anything about a COBOL based system.

[marble falls]

6. They were fixing it and the wrench slipped. It could have happened to anyone.

[Tickle]

7. I'm good. I just logged in and saw my check

that will be deposited for 4/16/2025.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Hope they kept a ........... HARD COPY ............

Be just like these doofusses to program and code on the fly