A DOGE whistleblower reveals that staffers at the Trump-created agency uploaded an entire Social Security database to an insecure cloud server – compromising the records of hundreds of millions of Americans. Here’s what cybersecurity experts had to say to Cybernews.
The damning report, published by the New York Times on Tuesday, says a live “copy of a crucial Social Security database” was uploaded to the vulnerable cloud server in June.
Apparently, it wasn't just low-level workers at the Department of Government Efficiency responsible for mishandling the database, but DOGE leaders who chose to go ahead with the project despite being warned about the risks.
Exposing the security incident is none other than the Social Security Administration’s(SSA) Chief Data Officer (CDO) Charles Borges.
According to the Times piece, Borges' complaint states that “DOGE members copied the data to an internal agency server that only DOGE could access, forgoing the type of ‘independent security monitoring’ normally required under agency policy for such sensitive data and creating ‘enormous vulnerabilities.’”
“Should bad actors gain access to this cloud environment, Americans may be susceptible to widespread identity theft, may lose vital health care and food benefits, and the government may be responsible for reissuing every American a new Social Security number at great cost,” the disclosure said, which was filed Tuesday with the Office of Special Counsel and congressional committees.
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