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BumRushDaShow

(160,717 posts)
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 05:47 PM Friday

DOGE put Social Security numbers on cloud server at risk of hacking: Senate Democrat

Source: The Hill

09/26/25 4:21 PM ET


A report issued Thursday accuses the Department of Government Efficiency of putting millions of Americans’ personal information in an unsecured cloud server.

Released by Senate Homeland Security Committee ranking member Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), the report describes “unprecedented privacy and cybersecurity risks” by the agency, which one whistleblower warned could end with every American needing to be issued a new Social Security number.

Chuck Borges, former chief data officer at the Social Security Administration (SSA), filed a whistleblower complaint in August, revealing the existence of DOGE’s “vulnerable cloud environment.” His accusations of DOGE’s mishandling of Americans’ personal information came after an appeals court ruled that DOGE could continue accessing sensitive federal data.

The report, compiled by the committee’s Democratic staff cites multiple whistleblowers, including Borges, and states that DOGE staffers “had been granted permission to move highly sensitive SSA data into an unmonitored cloud environment.” “Authorization to upload live SSA data to the cloud environment was apparently granted, according to whistleblower disclosures, by Michael Russo and Aram Moghaddassi, both of whom are DOGE-affiliated,” the report continues.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5524103-report-accuses-doge-ssn-data-breach/



Link to Senator Gary Peters' REPORT (PDF) - https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/DOGE_REPORT_FINAL_7.pdf
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DOGE put Social Security numbers on cloud server at risk of hacking: Senate Democrat (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Friday OP
Musk and the DOGE kids should be indicated for identity theft and the violation of HIPAA of Hotler Friday #1
Yes, indicted wolfie001 Friday #2
Indicted (no "a") llmart Friday #4
Time for a class action suit. OldBaldy1701E Friday #3
I hope they've taken it down already? FakeNoose Friday #5
Only the Best BOSSHOG Friday #6
Someone is making money on that. C Moon Friday #7
Prior to this Administration, 0 credit fraud schemes Buddyzbuddy Friday #8
They put an unsecured email server in a random port at the beginning of all of this Gore1FL Friday #9

Hotler

(13,442 posts)
1. Musk and the DOGE kids should be indicated for identity theft and the violation of HIPAA of
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 06:53 PM
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millions of Americans.

wolfie001

(6,218 posts)
2. Yes, indicted
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 07:41 PM
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They should be charged with stealing our identity for political purposes. Nasty mf'ers.

llmart

(16,878 posts)
4. Indicted (no "a")
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 07:46 PM
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A week ago my son told me the following story. He is a software engineer for NASA at KSC. He and others working on the Artemis II program were required to update a background check for their security clearances. He said there was a line for Social Security number and he was tempted to write in, "Ask Elon. He knows everyone's."

OldBaldy1701E

(9,128 posts)
3. Time for a class action suit.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 07:44 PM
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Anyone who has had their Social Security number or identity stolen in the last eight months should be on that suit.

Let them sort out which ones have merit. Hit that loon with as many suits as we can. Keep him in a court room.

FakeNoose

(38,756 posts)
5. I hope they've taken it down already?
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 07:47 PM
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Why would it be announced in The Hill or any other publication, if the data hasn't been secured yet?

Buddyzbuddy

(1,549 posts)
8. Prior to this Administration, 0 credit fraud schemes
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 08:02 PM
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Since June '25, three separate attempts and my wife also three on her own debit and credit cards.
As a result, I'm closing half of my accounts. I suspect Doge as a possible reason.
Multiply our recent experiences by just 5% and credit card companies might start taking notice. How about just closing foreign call centers for a start. Doge needs to go and then they need to be tracked at the very least, monetarily.

Gore1FL

(22,605 posts)
9. They put an unsecured email server in a random port at the beginning of all of this
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 08:24 PM
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Everything has been vulnerable for a long time.

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