The Elon Musk–founded Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded to an insecure Amazon Web Services server a copy of Americans’ Social Security data, risking the security of critical personal information for more than 300 million people, according to a protected whistleblower disclosure to the US Office of Special Counsel and congressional committees filed by the Government Accountability Project.
Whistleblower Charles Borges, who has served as the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration (SSA) since January, disclosed that DOGE created a live copy of the country’s Social Security information in a test cloud environment that circumvents oversight and potentially violates security protocols and federal privacy regulations.
Borges says the risky maneuver capped a turbulent period at SSA during which the DOGE workers progressed from emergency circumvention of court orders in March 2025 to full-blown systematic institutional approval of high-risk activities involving sensitive public data by July 2025.
“A way to view this is as an attack by an insider threat,” John Skiles Skinner, a former consulting engineer and project leader at 18F, a prestigious and influential US government digital services agency that DOGE...
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