An employee of the Social Security Administration (SSA) filed allegations that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees uploaded the Social Security information of millions of Americans to an unsecured cloud server. The complaint was filed by Charles Borges, the SSA’s Chief Data Officer (CDO).
Borges submitted the protected whistleblower disclosure to the Office of Special Counsel. According to his attorneys, employees in the DOGE are alleged to have copied Social Security information into a vulnerable cloud environment without authorization from Borges. The data is said to contain information on over 300 million Americans, including names, family information, birthplace and birthday, race, citizenship, phone numbers, and other personal details.
The whistleblower complaint states that with access to SSA data, “it is possible that the sensitive PII [personally identifiable information] on every American, including health diagnoses, income levels, and banking information, family relationships, and personal biographic data, could be exposed publicly, and shared widely.”
Since its establishment in January 2025, DOGE repeatedly attempted to access Social Security information. These attempts led to a lawsuit in late February, after which DOGE was subject to a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) and a Preliminary Injunction (PI) preventing it from accessing PII copied from SSA records and from accessing information without proper clearance and approval. A PI was...
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