 "Ex-Doge employee stole Americans’ social security data, stored it on thumb drive")
A former employee at Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency stole the personal data of Americans that was well embedded from the US Social Security Administration and secured it all in a thumb drive, according to a report by Washington Post.
The former Doge employee told his colleagues at his new workplace that he possessed two tightly restricted databases of US citizens’ information and was planning to use the information at his new job.
Investigation ongoing
The Social Security Administration’s inspector general is investigating the significance of the report. The former worker’s identity was not revealed by the Washington Post. He worked at the Social Security Administration last year and then in October left to work as a government contractor , where he told colleagues that he had obtained two databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” according to The Post.
Which reported that the databases could include records for “more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names.”
A spokesperson for the Social Security Administration, still under the control of Doge, denied claims that a former employee stole data on US citizens, accusing the Washington Post of publishing “fake news” to alarm seniors. The inspector general’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Breach of personal data
This marks the latest suspected breach of Americans’ personal data linked to Doge’s involvement in the Social Security Administration. In January, two Doge members were accused in a lawsuit of accessing and sharing restricted Social Security numbers to support an advocacy group seeking to overturn election results in certain states.
Another whistleblower within the agency last year alleged that Doge members put Americans at risk by uploading hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server. That same year, a judge barred Doge from accessing SSA systems, saying the Musk-led agency appeared to be on a “fishing expedition” for fraud.
Several DOGE members were placed inside the Social Security Administration after Donald Trump took office last year. According to The Washington Post, at least a dozen Doge employees, mostly engineers and technical staff, worked at the agency, though their roles and responsibilities were not clearly communicated to other staff members.
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