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A new whistleblower disclosure from SSA Chief Data Officer Charles Borges reported that DOGE officials, while working at SSA, authorized themselves to create a live, cloud-based version of SSA’s entire dataset, containing personal information of millions of Americans. DOGE officials uploaded the dataset to a vulnerable system, without including measures for security or oversight, according to a whistleblower disclosure that the Government Accountability Project submitted to the Office of Special Counsel and multiple congressional committees this week.

The report noted that SSA’s data contained details that individuals submit when applying for a Social Security card. Generally, that includes their name, location and date of birth, citizenship status, race and ethnicity, phone number, mailing address, and their parents’ names and Social Security numbers, along with other sensitive information.