Whistleblower says US news

Elon MuskThe so-called “Ministry of Government Efficiency” (Doge) copied and uploaded sensitive social Security According to a whistleblower complaint filed Tuesday, data from the Administration (SSA) could endanger the security risks of hundreds of millions of Americans and violate federal privacy laws.

complaint Charles BorgesSSA’s chief data officer said Doge employees effectively created a real-time copy of social security data across the country from its numerical identification system database. The complaint said the information was a gold mine for bad actors and was placed on servers without independent supervision, which was accessible only to Doge officials.

The complaint states: “These actions constitute violations of laws, rules and regulations, abuse of authority, mismanagement, and pose significant and specific threats to public health and safety.”

The whistleblower complains, first report The New York Timesis the alleged danger to the public how Doge staff obtain confidential government information and use it for their own purposes. The database that allegedly uploads officials to the cloud contains highly personal information about hundreds of millions of U.S. citizens and residents. It includes details such as name, location and date, race and race, family members’ names, phone numbers, addresses and social security numbers.

The Social Security Bureau denied that sensitive data had been compromised, noting that this was taken seriously to all whistleblowers’ complaints.

“SSA stores all personal data in a secure environment with strong safeguards to protect vital information. The data cited in the complaint is stored in the long-term environment used by the SSA and is closed from the Internet,” a spokesperson for the SSA said. “We do not know of any compromises to this environment and are committed to protecting sensitive personal data.”

The nonprofit government accountability project reporting agency organization is providing Borges legal counsel for cases and filing complaints with the Office of the U.S. Special Counsel, and Congress. The complaint calls on lawmakers to act quickly to protect public data and provide more oversight.

“Putting a live copy of Americans’ Social Security data in a cloud environment without independent supervision puts everyone’s social insurance numbers and their families at real risk of the people who may have followed them over the years, tax or tax or medical fraud.”

Borges, a professional civil servant and naval veteran, joined SSA in late January and previously served as Chief Data Officer of the Naval Aviation Systems Command. His complaint said he repeatedly raised concerns about his superiors, and officials who directly accessed the data were inappropriate, but did nothing.

“Mr. Borges spent weeks urging repairs within the SSA; when nothing changed, he used protected channels provided by federal whistleblower law,” Maza said. “We call for immediate oversight and independent review to investigate these violations, prevent future problems and restore required safeguards.”

Legislators and ethical regulators, as well as former and present federal employees, have long accused Doge of ignoring security protocols and transparency and accessing government data. A separate Whistleblower disclosure In April, concerns were that Doge employees had potentially revealed sensitive National Labor Relations Commission information and claimed that Doge employees appeared to be trying to cover up files of the data they accessed.

As Doge quickly embedded employees across federal agencies earlier this year, it gained information from a wide range of government databases. Although the report details how the agency uses some of the data to In addition, Trump administration’s immigration suppressionwhy Doge accessed public data has not been fully considered.