A whistleblower has accused workers with the Department of Government Efficiency of putting as many as 300 million Social Security numbers at risk after they deposited sensitive personal information in a “vulnerable cloud environment.”
In a letter released Tuesday, Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, and an unidentified whistleblower allege that Aram Moghaddassi, SSA’s chief information officer, gave DOGE workers detailed to the agency the authority to construct “a live copy of the country’s Social Security information in a cloud environment that circumvents oversight.”
The whistleblower report said that this put “the security of over 300 million Americans’ Social Security data” at risk.