The Social Security Administration’s Office of Inspector General is investigating allegations of a security breach by a member of the so-called government efficiency department led by Elon Musk. A whistleblower has claimed that a former software engineer at DOGE said he had access to two of the SSA’s databases, the “Numident” and the “Master Death File.” The man reportedly asked for help in transferring the database from the thumb drive to his personal computer so he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it. [the company],” an unnamed government contractor where he is currently employed. Those databases contain personal information about more than 500 million living and dead Americans.
Washington Post It was reported that the whistleblower’s complaint was lodged with the Inspector General in January. “When The Post contacted the agency and the company in January, both said they had not heard of the complaint. Both said they later looked into the allegations and found no evidence to corroborate the claims,” the publication said. It’s not clear why the complaint is now being investigated and neither party offered comment this week PostArticle of. The SSA watchdog informed both members of Congress and the Government Accountability Office about its investigation.
These allegations follow a separate whistleblower complaint filed last August about DOGE’s access to and misuse of data from the SSA. The agency’s former chief data officer, Charles Borges, claimed that an SSA database was stored in an unsecured cloud environment. “This is the absolute worst-case scenario,” Borges said. Post Among the latest claims. “There could be one or a million copies of it, and we’ll never know now.”
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