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. A whistleblower says more than 300 million americans' social security data was put at risk after department of government efficiency officials uploaded sensitive information to a cloud account not subject to oversight. Doge has created a live copy of the entire country's social security information, a social security official says in a whistleblower complaint.
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A whistleblower at ssa said doge officials uploaded social security's entire dataset to a vulnerable cloud system, without security or oversight measures.
Doge team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency's chief data officer.
The move potentially violated multiple federal statutes and could cause a catastrophic impact, the whistleblower warned, according to the new york times. Social security administration chief data officer charles borges made the allegations in a whistleblower complaint filed tuesday. Department of government efficiency employees at the social security administration put the records of more than 300 million americans at risk by creating a copy of the data in a vulnerable cloud.
