Whistleblower Warns of Social Security Data Breach via DOGE
TL;DR
A whistleblower claims that former officials at the Department of Government Efficiency copied the personal data of over 300 million Americans, including Social Security numbers, to a private, inadequately secured server within the SSA's cloud infrastructure, raising concerns about potential data exposure and misuse, despite SSA's assurances of data security.
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- Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers NPR
- DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says The New York Times
- Social Security official says DOGE compromised Americans’ data The Washington Post
- DOGE put Social Security data in ‘vulnerable cloud environment’: Whistleblower The Hill
- Whistleblower warns of massive Social Security data risk Axios
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