DOJ Court Filing Validates Social Security Whistleblower’s Claims

This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Charles Borges, and was originally published here.

In November 2025, Charles Borges, former Chief Data Officer of the Social Security Administration (SSA), filed a whistleblower report with the Office of Special Counsel alleging that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had uploaded information to an unsecured cloud server. On January 16th, the DOJ filed a Notice of Corrections to the Record, confirming that DOGE personnel mishandled data and partially validating the whistleblower’s allegation.

Borges’s disclosure warned that DOGE had copied data held by the SSA, including personally identifiable information, into a cloud environment lacking government security protections and independent oversight. In its recent filing, the DOJ acknowledged that DOGE-affiliated staff used a third-party server called “Cloudflare”, unknown to SSA leadership. Although the DOJ initially denied these allegations, this filing confirms that data mismanagement occurred. The SSA stated that it is currently unable to determine which data was shared or whether that data still exists outside of federal control.

The filing also reveals that members of SSA’s DOGE Team were asked to analyze state voter rolls at the request of a political advocacy group, and that a DOGE Team Member signed a “Voter Data Agreement” with that advocacy group in March 2025,...

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