Department of Government Efficiency workers allegedly copied Social Security numbers into the agency’s cloud server, making millions of Americans' sensitive data and information vulnerable to being leaked or stolen, according to a whistleblower complaint.
News of the complaint comes after the Supreme Court ruled in June that DOGE was permitted access to the Social Security Administration’s internal systems.
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Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, filed a written complaint through the nonprofit Government Accountability Project.
Borges alleges that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials, now employed as Social Security Administration employees, copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of more than 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud server that only DOGE could access.
But the New York Times reported that Borges did not imply that the Social Security database had been violated or used inappropriately.
Borges explained in his complaint that copies of the Social Security data apparently were created within the Social Security Administration’s existing cloud system, which operates on Amazon Web Services.
The complaint also noted that the copied data had far fewer security guidelines in place to safeguard it than the SSA's standard policies typically require.
Borges also said that cybersecurity officials within the...
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