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Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers

A whistleblower complaint says the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by former members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.

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[s] 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 reissue Social Security numbers to millions of Americans in the event the cloud server was breached. In a 6-3 ruling by the conservative justices, the court lifted a temporary restraining order restricting DOGE officials' access to Americans' Social Security data.

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