WASHINGTON ― Personal information of more than 300 million Americans is at risk of being leaked or hacked after employees of the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a sensitive Social Security database to a vulnerable cloud server, the Social Security Administration's chief data officer said in a whistleblower complaint.
DOGE's actions have effectively created "a live copy of the entire country’s Social Security information," lawyers for chief data officer Charles Borges alleged in the Aug. 26 complaint, which contends the information is on a server that lacks security oversight and a way to track who has accessed the data.
The data ‒ which Borges said was copied to a server that only DOGE employees could access ‒ includes all information required to apply for a Social Security card: Social Security numbers, names of the applicants, places and dates of birth, parents' names, race and ethnicities, citizenship, and other personal information.
"Should bad actors gain access to this cloud environment, Americans may be susceptible to widespread identity theft, may lose vital healthcare and food benefits, and the government may be responsible for re-issuing every American a new Social Security Number at great cost," attorneys for Borges wrote in the complaint, which was filed by the Government Accountability Project, a whistleblower protection group.
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