The Trump administration's cost cutting brigade created a live replica of Social Security data in a cloud system lying outside of federal oversight, a whistleblower said in a report released Tuesday.
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The replica - containing sensitive data of more than 300 million Americans and created without authorization or monitoring from the Social Security Administration's infrastructure security team - was approved by DOGE-aligned officials embedded at the agency, said agency Chief Data Officer Charles Borges, who filed a complaint with Congress.
His disclosure deepens earlier reporting that DOGE, under Musk's leadership, sought to build a "master database" is in likely violation of federal privacy laws and data security regulations (see: Whistleblower Warns DOGE Secretly Building 'Master Database').
The Borges complaint alleges DOGE officials uploaded names, birthdates, addresses and Social Security numbers to an unsecured cloud system while bypassing internal protocol, ignoring court orders and sidelining career civil servants. Cybersecurity experts warned that circumventing oversight, skipping risk assessments and placing high-value data in an unmonitored environment could trigger massive breaches and damage public trust in the federal government's ability to safeguard personal information.
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