Elon Musk’s DOGE copied entire Social Security database to an insecure cloud system, whistleblower says

The data director of the Social Security Administration, he whistles on President Donald Trump and the Ministry of Elon Musk’s government, better known as Doge.

According to the Government Accountability Project, which represents the reproduction Charles Borges, the officials of DOGE have risky safety Of more than 300 million Americans by creating a “live copy of the country’s social security information in a cloud environment that bypass surveillance”.

Borges says that he became aware of “serious data security keys, obviously orchestrated by DOGE officials, currently employed as SSA” in recent weeks, because the social security database has been copied to an unsecured live cloud system.

What did Dog do with social security data?

The project of government liability sent a letter detailing the Borges account of DOGE shares to the members of the Congress and to the US Special Advice Bureau on Tuesday. The letter claims that Doge “violated laws, rules and regulations”, as well as for “abuse of authority, mismanagement and creation of a substantial and specific threat to public health and security”.

“This vulnerable cloud environment is actually a live copy of all the country’s social security information from the digital identification system database (Numident), which apparently lacks SSA security surveillance or monitoring to determine who access or has access to the copy of these data,” said the letter.

“Numident contains all data submitted in an Application for a United States Social Security Card – Including the Name of the Applicant, Place and Date of Birth, Citizenship, Race and Ethnicity, Parents’ Names and Social Security Numbers, Phone Number, Address, and Other Personal Information. 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 a new Social Security Number at great cost.

The letter also includes an email of July 15 with the information director SSA (IOC) Aram Moghaddassi, chief of SSA (CIO), the signing of the project.

Moghaddassi is quoted in the e-mail saying: “I determined that the commercial need is higher than the security risk associated with this implementation and I accept all the risks associated with this implementation and this operation.”

As Ars Technica emphasizes that Moghaddassi previously worked on Elon Musk X’s social media platform and the Musk Neuralink brain chips. Moghaddassi was integrated into a government role through Doge, originally integrated into the Ministry of Labor before becoming the IOC and SSA about two months ago.

The Trump administration created Doge with Elon Musk after Trump won the 2024 presidential election in a declared effort to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in government.

However, DOGE quickly got involved in controversy. He has accessed sensitive data without going through appropriate security channels, reduces rescue programs by dismantling USAID and has misunderstood the public about his conclusions of so-called waste, fraud and abuse.

Doge Access to social security data was known and its management of this data has been criticized. But this new revelation from Whistleblower Borges that Doge created a live copy of the database was not previously disclosed.

In their letter, Borges and the government liability project urges the congress to investigate the issue.