A whistleblower complaint alleged that a former employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) illegally copied sensitive Social Security data. The allegations have triggered a federal investigation and renewed concerns about the security of Americans' personal information, The Washington Post reported.
According to reports, the Social Security Administration (SSA) inspector general is reviewing allegations that a former DOGE engineer transferred sensitive records from government databases onto a USB thumb drive before leaving the agency.
The alleged breach involves databases containing personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans, including Social Security numbers, birth details, and parental information
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The complaint alleges that a DOGE staffer working with the SSA had extensive system access and downloaded information from key government databases, including Numident, the agency’s master file containing identifying information linked to every Social Security number issued since 1936.
The "Numident" and "Master Death File" databases contain information on over 500 million Americans, both living and deceased. However, investigators have not confirmed the exact scale of the data involved.
According to the whistleblower, the engineer reportedly stored at least one dataset on a portable drive and may have taken it to a new...
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