Lawmakers from relevant congressional committees are reviewing a whistleblower complaint that DOGE personnel put the Social Security data of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk by uploading it to an insecure cloud platform.
Why it matters: The complaint is one of the first whistleblower actions by a senior official at an agency DOGE has made changes to that has been made public, and gives insight into security risks that lawmakers have warned might arise from how DOGE personnel were handling sensitive data.
The complaint: A group representing Chuck Borges, chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, posted a copy of his whistleblower complaint submitted to multiple congressional committees on Tuesday, along with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.
It alleges that DOGE officials, in roles at SSA, uploaded a copy of a key Social Security database to the cloud in June, putting the valuable data at risk of being stolen by cybercriminals or nation states. Borges alleged that SSA Chief Information Officer Aram Moghaddassi, a DOGE associate appointed to the role in June, approved the operation.
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