DOGE shared Social Security data to unauthorized server, according to a court filing
This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client Charles Borges and was originally published here.
A Department of Government Efficiency employee shared Social Security data without agency officials’ knowledge and in violation of security protocols, the Justice Department said in a court filing Tuesday.
The Social Security Administration is still unable to determine what information was shared through a third-party server that’s not approved to store agency records or whether that data still exists on the server, according to the filing.
The filing is the Trump administration’s first acknowledgement that DOGE employees inappropriately handled highly sensitive Social Security data – a charge that a top agency official levied last summer. DOGE had argued that it needed access to Americans’ records to root out fraud, including updating the agency’s information to stop improper payments and fraud that could be related to deceased individuals.
Charles Borges, who had served as Social Security’s chief data officer between late January and late August, warned in a whistleblower complaint that DOGE employees put the records of more than 300 million Americans at risk by creating a copy of the data in a vulnerable cloud computing server.
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