A Republican lawmaker is pressing the Social Security Administration on its data storage and security practices after an agency whistleblower came forward last month, alleging Department of Government Efficiency staff compromised Americans’ personal, sensitive information.

Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, sent a letter to SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano on Wednesday, requesting immediate information on any actions the agency took upon hearing the whistleblowers’ concerns, writing that the amount of sensitive data under the agency is a “matter of first importance.”

“Please inform the Committee on Finance immediately upon receipt of this letter whether the Numident database itself or any data contained in the Numident was accessed, leaked, hacked, or disseminated in any unauthorized fashion,” Crapo wrote.

It comes about two weeks after Charles Borges, the agency’s former chief data officer, filed a whistleblower complaint alleging DOGE members, under the direction of SSA Chief Information Officer Aram Moghaddassi, permitted themselves to copy Americans’ Social Security information onto a cloud server.

Borges, who has since resigned from his role, stated that this was a “vulnerable cloud environment” that now contains a live copy of the agency’s Numerical Identification System (Numident) database.

The Numident data includes all the information applicants use for a Social Security card, including their name, phone number, address, date of birth, parents’...

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