Big Balls and the boys opened up millions of Americans to identity fraud. They might as well have just put it on the dark web:
A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency’s cloud. That private cloud environment is accessible by other former DOGE employees at the SSA and is lacking adequate security, potentially putting an enormous amount of private information at risk to being revealed and possibly used by identity thieves.
In a written complaint filed through the nonprofit Government Accountability Project, Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, claims that senior Trump appointees at the SSA who were recently part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team made the copy in a way that “constitute[s] violations of laws, rules, and regulations, abuse of authority, gross mismanagement, and creation of a substantial and specific threat to public health and safety.”
Borges says that career cybersecurity officials within the SSA described the decision to copy the data as “very high risk” and even discussed the possibility of having to reissue Social Security numbers to millions of Americans in the event the cloud server was breached.
This is what comes when you give access to Americans’ most important private information to arrogant little boys who know or care nothing about the world.
What ever happened to Elon, by the way? He’s the one who did this. And he seems to be hiding. Why is that? I suppose it might be because he’s busy using all that sweet government data to train his LLM. He got what he came for.