In the past three years, 31,931 living people have had their information included in the SSA’s Death Master File (DMF) The errors appear to affect fewer than 1% of the 2 million deaths that are reported annually and logged in the DMF database. Many of the affected people don’t know that their data has been exposed, or that they’ve even been included. The SSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether the agency had a data breach notification program in place.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/social-security-failed-to-disclose-breaches