Whistleblower Says DOGE Stashed 300 Million Social Security IDs on ‘Vulnerable’ Server

David Gilmour Aug 26th, 2025, 11:49 am

(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

A whistleblower accused officials tied to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) of putting the personal details of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk by uploading the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) most sensitive database into a “vulnerable” cloud server.

Charles Borges , the SSA’s chief data officer, made the allegation in a complaint filed with the Office of Special Counsel and Congress in which he warned that DOGE’s handling of the so-called Numident file, which contains every Social Security number ever issued, exposed the data to “enormous vulnerabilities.”

“Should bad actors gain access to this cloud

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