In the marble halls of the State House, where whispered conversations often matter more than public pronouncements, a curious document circulated among Governor Wes Moore’s appointees this August....

A whistleblower revealed that officials from the Department of Government Efficiency endangered the Social Security data of over 300 million Americans by uploading sensitive information to an unmon...

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The private information of hundreds of millions of Americans is at risk after the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a copy of a vast Social Security database to a cloud server in June, a...

A senior official at the U.S. Social Security Administration today filed a whistleblower complaint over DOGE’s access to agency data. The official, SSA Chief Data Officer Chuck Borges, is represen...

Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Department of Government Efficiency officials illegally copied the data of more than 300 million people, a Social Security Administration official says. SSA Chief Data Officer Cha...

Members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency exposed Social Security data of more than 300 million Americans, putting personal information at risk of being leaked or hacked into, ac...

SSA’s chief data officer alleged that DOGE copied the full Social Security database of over 300 million Americans to a vulnerable cloud server with no oversight. Internal security officials calle...

Members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency exposed Social Security data of more than 300 million Americans, putting personal information at risk of being leaked or hacked into, a...

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