On August 26, 2025, Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, filed a whistleblower disclosure, submitted by the Government Accountability Project that confirmed our fears. The disclosure, addressed to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs, the Senate Committee on Finance, the Acting Special Counsel, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the House Ways and Means Committee, alleges that DOGE “employees copied ultrasensitive data to a cloud server that does not meet government standards for protecting data privacy.” He further alleges that there are “serious data security lapses…orchestrated by DOGE officials, currently employed as SSA employees, that risk the security of over 300 million Americans’ Social Security data.”
In June 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the March 2025 preliminary injunction issued by the District Court which blocked DOGE’s access to sensitive government data, allowing DOGE to proceed with its work. The disclosure alleges that, since then, “DOGE officials employed by SSA have created a live copy of a critical database, known as the NUMIDENT file, in a cloud environment.” The NUMIDENT database has over “548 million Social Security numbers, along with the identifying information of everyone living or dead who has ever had a Social Security number.” The database is alleged to include “all information submitted in an application for a United States Social Security...
George Gilbert, who was removed from Big Brother last week, has spent the last day revealing the horrific things he said that led to his ejection from the house. And if I was his publicist, I’d ha...