Whistleblower Says Doge Put Social Security Data At Risk 135Eaf2F
The Wall Street JournalOCT 2025
Whistleblower: DOGE Officials Uploaded Social Security Data to Cloud Server
Whistleblower: DOGE Officials UploadUploaded Social Security Data to Cloud Server
Above: The Social Security office located in Houston. Image credit: Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle/Getty Images
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DOGE needed this data in order to root out waste and fraud that had been permitted by past administrations. The Supreme Court upheld the agency's right to access the data. The SSA has upheld its duty to secure the data in protected environments with proper oversight, walled off from the internet. There's been no evidence of a compromise or breach.
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