DOGE put Social Security numbers on cloud server at risk of hacking: Senate Democrat [View all]

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/