SSA official alleges that Doge staff uploaded personal data of hundreds of millions of Americans to vulnerable cloud server

Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) copied and uploaded sensitive Social Security Administration (SSA) data to a vulnerable cloud server, potentially risking the safety of hundreds of millions of Americans and violating federal privacy laws, according to a whistleblower complaint filed on Tuesday.

The complaint from Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the SSA, alleges that Doge staffers effectively created a live copy of the entire country’s social security data from its numerical identification system database. The information is a goldmine for bad actors, the complaint alleges, and was placed on a server without independent oversight that only Doge officials could access.

“These actions constitute violations of laws, rules, and regulations, abuse of authority, gross mismanagement, and creation of a substantial and specific threat to public health and safety,” the complaint states.

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    DOGE and MAGA have thoroughly exposed the entire US government apparatus to adversaries such as Russia, China, and Iran. Every Intelligence Community communication, every healthcare dataset, every IRS record, everything. The US is so thoroughly opened up, it’s over. Most people don’t really intuitively understand this yet. There are practically no sensitive or secret things in America anymore since these traitors have exposed it.