I expect it was an internal hack. Like a DOGE person left for the day with their terminal open and a federal employee took the opportunity to make it look bad for DOGE

The bad side of this:

• It’s going to be stupidly expensive to fix
• It’s going to take years to hire and train, or rehire lost staff to do the fixing
• People are going to lose services and probably money that they need
• It achieves nothing

The good side:

Isn’t it a payments database? One client could have multiple payments. You wouldn’t expect client IDs to be unique

It’s going to be so expensive to fix all the damage this government is doing when America next has sensible government

So many skills lost, so many systems broken