Thread 1429886

Within weeks of Donald Trump’s second inaugural, members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team showed up at the Social Security Administration and started demanding access to files. The efforts were not well received: Michelle King, in her capacity as the acting Social Security commissioner, resigned after she refused a DOGE request to access sensitive government records at the agency.

The underlying concern did not go away. The New York Times reported:

Members of the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a copy of a crucial Social Security database in June to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk of being leaked or hacked, according to a whistle-blower complaint filed by the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer. The database contains records of all Social Security numbers issued by the federal government.

The Times’ report added that the database in question “includes individuals’ full names, addresses and birth dates, among other details that could be used to steal their identities, making it one of the nation’s most sensitive repositories of personal information.”

It’s an open question as to why, exactly, DOGE would even want to upload such a database. (The controversial operation is ostensibly searching for fraud within the Social Security system, though its previous claims on the matter have fallen apart under scrutiny.)

>https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/whistleblower-accuses-doge-team-endangering-critical-social-security-d-rcna227264

>>1429886 (OP) (Cont)
The whistleblower in this case is Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, who alleges that DOGE members copied the highly sensitive data without any kind of “independent security monitoring,” which in turn created “enormous vulnerabilities.”

Borges didn’t say that the database had been breached, but his complaint added that there was no oversight to assess how and why DOGE was using the data. The Times’ report added:

‘Should bad actors gain access to this cloud environment, Americans may be susceptible to widespread identity theft, may lose vital health care and food benefits, and the government may be responsible for reissuing every American a new Social Security number at great cost,’ Mr. Borges’s complaint said. He alleged that DOGE did not involve him in discussions about the project, despite his role as chief data officer, leaving him to piece together evidence of what had happened after the fact.

A spokesperson for the department said in a written statement, “Commissioner [Frank] Bisignano and the Social Security Administration take all whistleblower complaints seriously. SSA stores all personal data in secure environments that have robust safeguards in place to protect vital information.

“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. We are not aware of any compromise to this environment and remain dedicated to protecting sensitive personal data.”

In recent months, a variety of federal whistleblowers have come forward, and for the most part, the congressional Republican majority has ignored them — even when confirming Bisignano to lead the Social Security Administration. Whether GOP lawmakers express similar indifference to Borges remains to be seen.

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>>1429888
OTHER SOURCES:
>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5471062-cloud-environment-security-lapses/
>https://www.axios.com/2025/08/26/social-security-doge-data
>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html

Lmao leftists melting the fuck down, they get btfo and post Rachel Maddow blogs hahaha
Every time I've seen Rachel Maddow posted on here. In the past the thread's been deleted by janitors, I wonder if that's what will happen this time

>>1429892
Hey this was just the most convenient summary. I included the (paywalled) NYT article too.

So, what about Trump and Musk's little pet project storing millions of US social security details on a cloud server though?

>>1429892
you should just post in your primary language, it would probably make more sense

>>1429886 (OP)
>DOGE announces they're demanding access to social security files
>Democrats point out they'll mishandle them
>Data security experts point out they'll mishandle them
>Social security officials point out they'll mishandle them
>Social security commissioner points out they'll mishandle them
>Fire social security commissioner and give them access
>They mishandle them
Play stupid games win stupid prizes

Peter thiel's Palantir all this information now. We can trust him with it, because he is definitely not the ANTICHRIST.

>>1429894
It's interesting you didn't paste the text from the New York times article, because the full text doesn't actually say anything was accessible to the Internet or hackable, the whistleblower complaint alleges that it wasn't audited the same way that other SSA databases were, crating a "vulnerability"

He doesn't allege it was accessible, hackable, or impacted at all. He alleges it wasn't audited properly.

The account by the whistle-blower, Charles Borges, underscores concerns that have led to lawsuits seeking to block young software engineers at the agency built by Elon Musk from having access to confidential government data. In his complaint, Mr. Borges said DOGE members copied the data to an internal agency server that only DOGE could access, forgoing the type of “independent security monitoring” normally required under agency policy for such sensitive data and creating “enormous vulnerabilities.”
Mr. Borges did not indicate that the database had been breached or used inappropriately.
But his disclosure stated that as of late June, “no verified audit or oversight mechanisms” existed to monitor what DOGE was using the data for or whether it was being shared outside the agency. That kind of oversight would typically be provided by the agency’s career information security professionals, Mr. Borges said in his account.
And his complaint cites an official agency security assessment that described the project as “high risk” and that warned of “catastrophic impact” to Social Security beneficiaries and programs if the database were to be compromised.

>>1429906
Anon if it's not being handled properly we don't know whether or not it IS accessible. That in itself is uncertainty you cannot have working with info this sensitive.

>>1429908
>Anon if it's not being handled properly we don't know whether or not it IS accessible
Anon. You don't need access logging enabled on an s3 bucket to know if it has anonymous access enabled.

Someone reported that the database wasn't being audited well enough. That's a valid concern. Claiming that something is hackable, vulnerable, or exploitable because It doesn't meet a certain degree of auditing or access logging Is a false equivalence in any definition of the terms?

>>1429908 #
>Anon if it's not being handled properly we don't know whether or not it IS accessible
Anon. You don't need access logging enabled on an s3 bucket to know if it has anonymous access enabled.

Someone reported that the database wasn't being audited well enough. That's a valid concern. Claiming that something is hackable, vulnerable, or exploitable because It doesn't meet a certain degree of auditing or access logging Is a false equivalence in any definition of the terms, and is exactly what Rachel Maddow did.

>>1429911
awww, is wickle shill making up things to justify their orange messiah stealing everyones identities?

>>1429911
If it isn't being audited, then it's being handled improperly. We don't know for sure if it is in-fact secure. We don't know if they've been keeping it to themselves. And when it leaking can do as much damage as a list of millions of american's social security info, no one is gonna want to take that fucking chance.

>>1429911
what do you gain from sucking off billionaires who are currently operating like comic book villains? certainly you won't get any of their spoils

>>1429912
I'd rather not debate why Rachel Maddow blogs threads have historically been deleted from this board due to her reputation for low quality news. I figured this would be obvious to anyone, but once again I am surprised.

I think I'd rather just make a thread linking the nyt article and the contents of the complaint so that we have higher quality sources on this board than Maddow

>>1429919
enough ad hominem deflection anon

>>1429919
Posting facts just gets a tranny obsessed brazillian airsoft faggot to start screeching about how you should be raped.
I don't really care about your unsourced opinions either, and you don't seem to care enough to actually post the article.
Thanks for bumping though.

>>1429886 (OP)
>/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/
ayy lmao

>>1429923
you're giving away all of your pseudoposting styles just for this? you're pretty fucking dumb, shill

Tell that to Ukraine!

>>1429889
wrong thread , you must have meant to post this in >>1429003

>>1429911
>Claiming that something is hackable, vulnerable, or exploitable because It doesn't meet a certain degree of auditing or access logging Is a false equivalence
this is hilarious coming from the people who cried like bitches over Hillary's homemade email server

>>1429906
Reminder that there is currently a copy of millions of people's social security information out there, and we have no idea how it is being stored, if it is stored securely, or even whether or not it has been breached.

This shit should concern everyone.