Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers

Aries said:

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/nx-s1-5517977/social-security-doge-privacy

"A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private server. That server is accessible by other former DOGE employees at the SSA and is 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 nonprofit 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."

"According to Andrea Meza, an attorney with the Government Accountability Project who represents Borges, the cloud environment appeared to be set up for DOGE-affiliated Social Security staffers but that it "lacks independent security, monitoring and oversight." She said Borges "has serious concerns about the vulnerability it causes for nearly every American's data."

I've had my data breached several times but this takes the cake...

"In an email statement to NPR, the Social Security Administration said that its data remained secure. "The data referenced in the complaint is stored in a long-standing environment used by SSA and walled off from the internet," the statement read in part. "We are not aware of any compromise to this environment and remain dedicated to protecting sensitive personal data."

It's not hackers I'm worried about anymore though.

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Aries said:

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/nx-s1-5517977/social-security-doge-privacy

"A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private server. That server is accessible by other former DOGE employees at the SSA and is 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 nonprofit 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."

"According to Andrea Meza, an attorney with the Government Accountability Project who represents Borges, the cloud environment appeared to be set up for DOGE-affiliated Social Security staffers but that it "lacks independent security, monitoring and oversight." She said Borges "has serious concerns about the vulnerability it causes for nearly every American's data."

I've had my data breached several times but this takes the cake...

"In an email statement to NPR, the Social Security Administration said that its data remained secure. "The data referenced in the complaint is stored in a long-standing environment used by SSA and walled off from the internet," the statement read in part. "We are not aware of any compromise to this environment and remain dedicated to protecting sensitive personal data."

It's not hackers I'm worried about anymore though.

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Cope said:

Oh goodie, I can't wait to get many more emails/texts/phone calls from spamming companies hoping to sell me something I have no need for. Or gold shoes

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Lursa said:

I've been writing this likelihood since Day 1: DOGE. They've likely got a backdoor into everything they touched...personal data, govt files, national security info, etc.

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KingLeo said:

And selling the info to the highest bidder for personal gain.

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Lursa said:

IMO mostly for DOGE/Edolf to use as leverage against TACO. And yes, that includes the threat of doing exactly what you wrote.

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Aries said:

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/nx-s1-5517977/social-security-doge-privacy

"A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private server. That server is accessible by other former DOGE employees at the SSA and is 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 nonprofit 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."

"According to Andrea Meza, an attorney with the Government Accountability Project who represents Borges, the cloud environment appeared to be set up for DOGE-affiliated Social Security staffers but that it "lacks independent security, monitoring and oversight." She said Borges "has serious concerns about the vulnerability it causes for nearly every American's data."

I've had my data breached several times but this takes the cake...

"In an email statement to NPR, the Social Security Administration said that its data remained secure. "The data referenced in the complaint is stored in a long-standing environment used by SSA and walled off from the internet," the statement read in part. "We are not aware of any compromise to this environment and remain dedicated to protecting sensitive personal data."

It's not hackers I'm worried about anymore though.

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ColdHardTruth said:

If that is true, DOGE members may start disappearing.

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Lursa said:

I doubt Edolf cares.

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ColdHardTruth said:

He'll care when he is the only DOGE scumbag left.

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Lursa said:

So...you foresee all DOGE employees being assassinated?

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ColdHardTruth said:

I see the CIA dealing with them. It's not constitutional, but that have never stopped them before.

I see them all going on trial, including Musk, once dumpletits is gone.

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Lursa said:

That's quite a fantasy, almost sci-fi.

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ColdHardTruth said:

It's likely to be a reality.

It sounds off, but once the orange rapist is gone, those who were in his orbit will be held accountable.

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Aries said:

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/nx-s1-5517977/social-security-doge-privacy

"A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private server. That server is accessible by other former DOGE employees at the SSA and is 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 nonprofit 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."

"According to Andrea Meza, an attorney with the Government Accountability Project who represents Borges, the cloud environment appeared to be set up for DOGE-affiliated Social Security staffers but that it "lacks independent security, monitoring and oversight." She said Borges "has serious concerns about the vulnerability it causes for nearly every American's data."

I've had my data breached several times but this takes the cake...

"In an email statement to NPR, the Social Security Administration said that its data remained secure. "The data referenced in the complaint is stored in a long-standing environment used by SSA and walled off from the internet," the statement read in part. "We are not aware of any compromise to this environment and remain dedicated to protecting sensitive personal data."

It's not hackers I'm worried about anymore though.

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Greenbeard said:

Sounds like waste, fraud, and abuse. Who DOGEs the DOGErs?

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TangoNoCash said:

I’m sure they’ve done some illegal things. Wonder if we’ll ever know. They like to talk about the untrackable money printing accounts they found.

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