A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official copied the Social Security numbers, names, and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private server accessible by other former DOGE employees and lacking adequate security, potentially putting an enormous amount of private information at risk to being revealed and possibly used by identity thieves.

In a written complaint filed through the non-profit Government Accountability Project, Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, claims that senior Trump appointees at the SSA who were recently part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team made the copy in a way that "constitute violations of laws, rules and regulations, abuse of authority, gross mismanagement, and creation of a substantial and specific threat to public health and safety."

Borges says that career cybersecurity officials within the SSA described the decision to copy the data as "very high risk" and even discussed the possibility of having to re-issue Social Security numbers to millions of Americans in the event the cloud server was breached.

The server appears to have been set up inside the SSA's existing cloud infrastructure, which is run by Amazon Web Services. However, according to the complaint, the copied data had far fewer security measures in place to protect it than SSA's standard protocols typically require.

According to Andrea Meza, an attorney with the Government Accountability Project who...

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