Ex-DOGE Employee Exploited Americans' Private Data, Whistleblower Claims
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If true, the actions could constitute one of the "largest known data breaches in American history," Sen. Ron Wyden warned.
The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating a whistleblower complaint alleging that a former employee of President Donald Trump’s effectively defunct “Department of Government Efficiency” exploited Americans’ private information.
In a document HuffPost obtained Tuesday, the Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog informed the chairs and ranking members of four congressional committees last week that it was launching an investigation after receiving an anonymous complaint about “the potential misuse of SSA data by a former DOGE employee.”
The Washington Post reported more details not divulged by the SSA OIG, saying Tuesday it had reviewed the claim and spoken with the whistleblower. According to the complaint, a former DOGE software engineer claimed he had access to two highly sensitive SSA databases and planned to share Americans’ personal information with his new private sector employer. The databases include private information ― Social Security numbers, birthplaces, birthdates, citizenship status, parents’ names, races and ethnicities ― for more than 500 million Americans living and dead.
The complaint, the Post reports, claims that the former DOGE worker told the whistleblower he needed help uploading a thumb drive of the data to his personal computer so he could “sanitize” it before giving it to his new workplace. The worker allegedly told another colleague he believed Trump would pardon him if he was caught doing something illegal.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), one of the lawmakers who received notice of the complaint, said he was very concerned about the details he learned from the Post.
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