> "As the letter states, based on the agency's thorough review, neither the Numident database nor any of its data has been accessed, leaked, hacked, or shared in any unauthorized fashion," an SSA spokesperson told The Register. Again, no mention of that copy.

Wouldn't "any of its data" qualify as an answer to the question: "was the data in the database leaked"? It seems like SAA did answer, but we needed to generate clicks.