All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat

This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Charles Borges, and was originally published here.

Every American who has ever had a Social Security number may now be living with a hidden risk that never really expires.

That is the warning from Chuck Borges, the former chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, who calls the situation a “national security disaster” in an interview with MarketWatch.

Borges alleges that a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, copied the government’s master Social Security database into a cloud system that lacked normal oversight.

If his account is correct, the mishandling of this information could expose hundreds of millions of people to fraud and abuse for the rest of their lives.

How Social Security data ended up in a risky cloud system

According to a protected disclosure filed with the Office of Special Counsel, Borges told the Government Accountability Project that DOGE officials working at Social Security created a “live copy” of the country’s Social Security records in a separate cloud environment that sidestepped usual security checks.

The group says those lapses put the Social Security information of more than 300 million Americans at risk.

In plain terms, that means data normally locked inside...

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