According to a whistleblower Charles Borges, who worked as the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration since January, more than 300 million Americans’ Social Security data was put at risk after Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials uploaded sensitive information to a cloud account not subject to oversight, the Associated Press reports.
In a complaint submitted by the Government Accountability Project and addressed to House and Senate oversight lawmakers, Borges said the potential sensitive information at risk of being released includes health diagnoses, income, banking information, familial relationships and personal biographic data.
The complaint requests that authorities “take appropriate oversight action.”
The whistleblower is the latest complaint against President Donald Trump’s DOGE and the unprecedented access it received from the Republican administration to vast troves of personal data across the government under the mandate of eliminating waste, fraud and abuse.
SSA said in a statement that it “stores all personal data in secure environments that have robust safeguards in place to protect vital information.”
“The data referenced in the complaint,” the agency continued, “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’s Information Security team.
“We are not aware of any compromise to this environment and remain dedicated to protecting sensitive personal data.”
