{"id":375339,"date":"2025-08-26T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375339\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:13:12","slug":"whistleblower-alleges-doge-compromised-all-federal-social-security-numbers-enormous-vulnerabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375339\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Alleges DOGE Compromised All Federal Social Security Numbers: \u2018Enormous Vulnerabilities\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topline<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a copy of all federal Social Security numbers to a high-risk server in June, according to a complaint by Social Security Administration chief data officer Charles Borges that alleges the move created \u201cenormous vulnerabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk listens as reporters ask U.S. President Donald Trump and South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa questions during a press availability in the Oval Office at the White House on May 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Getty ImagesKey Facts<\/p>\n<p>The Government Accountability Project whistleblower protection group submitted a <a href=\"https:\/\/whistleblower.org\/press-release\/whistleblower-warns-of-possible-risks-to-americans-social-security-information\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/whistleblower.org\/press-release\/whistleblower-warns-of-possible-risks-to-americans-social-security-information\/\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/whistleblower.org\/press-release\/whistleblower-warns-of-possible-risks-to-americans-social-security-information\/\" aria-label=\"report\">report<\/a> on Borges\u2019 behalf to the federal government\u2019s Office of Special Counsel and congressional committees on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline The Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a copy of all federal Social Security numbers to a high-risk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,12268,295,474,2499,16164,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-375339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-department-of-government-efficiency","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-social-security-administration","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115095955339843212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}