{"id":2479146,"date":"2025-08-26T16:31:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-security-administration-rejects-whistleblower-complaint-of-doge-related-leak\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:32:28","slug":"social-security-administration-rejects-whistleblower-complaint-of-doge-related-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-security-administration-rejects-whistleblower-complaint-of-doge-related-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Administration rejects whistleblower complaint of DOGE-related leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsocial-security-administration-rejects-whistleblower-complaint-of-doge-related-leak%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2479146&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Social Security Governance (SSA) has rejected a whistleblower complaint alleging that officials from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) created an insecure cloud copy of Social Security data. The whistleblower report, released in August 2025, claims that this cloud habitat circumvents oversight and poses serious risks to the personal facts of over 300 million Americans. The data perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >exposed includes sensitive details<\/a> such as names, dates of birth, parental Social Security numbers, and citizenship information.<\/p>\n<p>SSA spokespersons maintain that they are unaware of any data breach and emphasize that the data is stored in secure, internet-isolated environments with strict access controls. The whistleblower,SSA Chief Data Officer Chuck Borges,and his attorneys highlight that unauthorized access to this cloud copy could lead to widespread identity theft,loss of benefits,and costly government efforts to reissue Social Security numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint also points to specific DOGE employees allegedly responsible for these security lapses. this controversy follows a 2025 Supreme Court decision allowing DOGE access to SSA data, lifting a previous restraining order that had limited such access. the SSA affirms its commitment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-a-hyper-digital-world-leaks-like-kristi-noems-social-security-number-are-an-everyday-thing\/\" title=\"In A Hyper-Digital World, Leaks Like Kristi Noem\u2019s Social ... Number Are An Everyday Thing\">protecting sensitive information<\/a> and taking whistleblower concerns seriously, while denying any current compromise of the system. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Social Security Administration rejects whistleblower complaint of DOGE-related leak<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2212961\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-government-efficiency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> officials may have created an insecure cloud copy of American Social Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">data<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/whistleblowers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whistleblower<\/a> report <a href=\"https:\/\/whistleblower.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released<\/a> Monday showed. <\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/social-security-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Social Security Administration<\/a> says it is not aware of any leak of the database.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3783127\/trump-us-honored-host-chinese-students\/\">Trump says US &#8216;honored&#8217; 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Social Security data,&rdquo; his lawyers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/whistleblower.org\/press-release\/whistleblower-warns-of-possible-risks-to-americans-social-security-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Government Accountability Project<\/a> wrote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/whistleblower.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complaint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The data referenced in the complaint is stored in a long-standing environment used by SSA and walled off from the internet. High-level career SSA officials have administrative access to this system with oversight by SSA&rsquo;s Information Security team,&rdquo; a spokesperson for the SSA said in a statement to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>DOGE officials created &ldquo;a live copy of the country&rsquo;s Social Security information in a cloud environment that circumvents oversight,&rdquo; Borges lawyers alleged in the <a href=\"https:\/\/whistleblower.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complaint<\/a>. His attorneys said the data that could be compromised includes all information American include when applying for a Social Security card &mdash; such as the applicant&rsquo;s name, place and date of birth, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">social security numbers<\/a> of their parents, citizenship information, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Should bad actors gain access to this cloud environment, Americans may be susceptible to widespread identity theft, may lose vital healthcare and food benefits, and the government may be responsible for re-issuing every American a new Social Security Number at great cost,&rdquo; Borges lawyers wrote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/whistleblower.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complaint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Borges specifically named as wrongdoers DOGE employees Aram Moghaddassi, the Chief Information Officer at the SSA; John Solly; Michael Russo; and Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old employee nicknamed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3491718\/trump-federalize-dc-big-balls-assault-local-thugs-crime-prosecuted\/\">&ldquo;Big Balls&rdquo;<\/a> who was assaulted in the streets of D.C. in early August.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint comes after DOGE came under scrutiny in early 2025 and several unions and retiree groups filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/69664313\/american-federation-of-state-county-and-municipal-employees-afl-cio-v\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> over DOGE seeking access to SSA data. The Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3434327\/supreme-court-doge-wins-foia-social-security-access\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ordered<\/a> that it would allow DOGE to access the Social Security data it has been requesting access to in a June 6-3 decision. <\/p>\n<p>Before the Supreme Court settled the lawsuit, however, DOGE was under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3384370\/judge-limits-doge-access-social-security-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">restraining order<\/a> since March 20 that prevented them from accessing the SSA data. The whistleblower&rsquo;s attorneys argued that once the Supreme Court issued their order and the restraining order was lifted, the DOGE activities became much more high-risk.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The violations progressed from emergency circumvention of court orders in March 2025 to systematic institutional approval of high-risk activities involving sensitive public data by July 2025,&rdquo; Borges lawyers allege in the <a href=\"https:\/\/whistleblower.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08-26-2025-Borges-Disclosure-Sanitized.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complaint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance\/3780324\/september-social-security-payment-four-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEPTEMBER SOCIAL SECURITY DIRECT PAYMENT WORTH $967 GOES OUT IN FOUR DAYS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Social Security Administration is adamant that it is not aware of any compromise to the data.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Commissioner [Frank] Bisignano and the Social Security Administration take all whistleblower complaints seriously. SSA stores all personal data in secure environments that have robust safeguards in place to protect vital information,&rdquo; a spokesperson for the SSA said in a statement to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSA denies whistleblower claim of DOGE data leak risk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2479147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25066150399501-SSA.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[59132,23466,35365,47326,62039],"class_list":["post-2479146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-data-leak","tag-doge","tag-government-agency","tag-social-security-administration","tag-whistleblower-complaint"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25066150399501-SSA.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479150,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479146\/revisions\/2479150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2479147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}