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Social Security’s inspector general is probing a whistleblower complaint that a former employee of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency claimed he had access to two Social Security da...

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Critics of the Department of Government Efficiency are sounding the alarm after the Washington Postreported Tuesday that the Social Security Administration’s inspector general isinvestigating a wh...

Washington, D.C. — Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has expanded an investigation of DOGE-related data leaks at the Social Security Administra...

One way or another, the whistle-blower lawsuit filed by Jon Oberg, the U.S. Department of Education researcher who uncovered the 9.5 student loan scandal, against six student loan companies that p...

An employee at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency may have taken Social Security data with him to a new job in what would be a major security breach. The Washington Post reports that ...

An employee at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency may have taken Social Security data with him to a new job in what would be a major security breach. The Washington Post reports that ...

A former employee of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency reportedly stole Americans’ personal data from the U.S. Social Security Administration and stored it on a thumb drive, accordin...