Social Security Administration chief information officer Charles Borges resigned in an email sent to select offices within the agency on Friday. Borges has been in the news this week for filing a whistleblower complaint that alleges DOGE members recklessly uploaded a copy of an SSA database containing Americans’ highly-sensitive personal information to a vulnerable cloud server. And because of the fallout from his whistle blowing, it seems, Borges has departed the agency.
“After reporting internally to management and externally to regulators serious data security and integrity concerns impacting our citizens' most sensitive personal data, I have suffered exclusion, isolation, internal strife, and a culture of fear, creating a hostile work environment and making work conditions intolerable,” Borges writes in his resignation email, a copy of which was obtained moments after it was sent by The Handbasket. He voices concerns about the handling of data resulting in violations of federal statutes or regulations, and calls the situation in which he’s been put “more than a reasonable employee could bear.”
Multiple SSA employees who received the email confirmed to me that the email curiously disappeared from their inboxes shortly after they received it, only for it to reappear a short while later.
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