Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers

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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 regulation's, 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 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."

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."

 

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It's funny they claimed this was the kind of incompetence DEI brought

It's hilarious to watch no affirmative action and no DEI and mediocre white people are still mediocre white people

 

[Worthless Loser]

This needs to be on all CBS, NBC and ABC 6:30pm World News shows plus regular CNN coverage. Instead this will be treated as just another story.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

This needs to be on all CBS, NBC and ABC 6:30pm World News shows plus regular CNN coverage. Instead this will be treated as just another story.

Read my lips: they’re in on it too…

 

[BlazedWun]

This needs to be on all CBS, NBC and ABC 6:30pm World News shows plus regular CNN coverage. Instead this will be treated as just another story.

This is what happens when you "flood the zone" as a strategy

Epstein is the major scandal, and shyt like this barely gets a blip