Days after filing a whistleblower complaint claiming that the Department of Government Efficiency put Americans’ Social Security data at risk, the agency’s chief data officer “involuntarily” resigned.
Charles Borges, who served in the post at the Social Security Administration since late January, wrote in his resignation letter that agency has taken actions against him that make it impossible for him to do his job “legally and ethically” and have caused him much distress.
“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 wrote in the letter, which CNN has viewed.
Borges on Tuesday filed a whistleblower complaint saying that Elon Musk‘s DOGE employees embedded at the agency put the records of more than 300 million Americans at risk by creating a copy of the data in a vulnerable cloud computing server. The data includes people’s names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other personal information.
The complaint was filed by the Government Accountability Project, which also posted Borges’ resignation letter.
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