“We are not aware of any compromise to this environment and remain dedicated to protecting sensitive personal data,” a spokesperson for the SSA said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.
According to the whistleblower report, SSA Chief Data Officer Chuck Borges believes the DOGE officials employed by the SSA have created “serious data lapses” that “risk the security of over 300 million Americans’ Social Security data,” his lawyers from the Government Accountability Project wrote in the complaint.
“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’s Information Security team,” a spokesperson for the SSA said in a statement
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