Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Department of Government Efficiency officials illegally copied the data of more than 300 million people, a Social Security Administration official says.
SSA Chief Data Officer Charles Borges said the data includes people's Social Security numbers, names and dates of birth and was copied and saved on a private area of the SSA's cloud storage, said in a letter sent to members of four congressional committees and the Office of Special Counsel.
"Borges' disclosures involve wrongdoing, including apparent systemic data security violations, uninhibited administrative access to highly sensitive production environments and potential violations of internal SSA security protocols and federal privacy laws," said the letter, which was attributed to Government Accountability Project officials Dana Gold and Andrea Meza.
The non-profit GAP compiled the letter and on Tuesday sent copies to the chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs, Senate Committee on Finance, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the House Ways and Means Committee.
A copy also was sent to Acting Special Counsel Jamieson Greer of the Office of Special Counsel.
Borges said DOGE staffers Edward Coristine, Aram Moghaddassi, John Solly and Michael Russo violated federal laws and regulations when they accessed and stored the SSA data.
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