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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Whistleblower claims DOGE compromised Social Security data of hundreds of millions of Americans

Members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency exposed Social Security data of more than 300 million Americans, putting personal information at risk of being leaked or hacked into, according to a bombshell whistleblower report.

A disclosure filed to the government’s top ethics office Tuesday alleges that a DOGE team had uploaded a copy of agency data for virtually every American to a vulnerable cloud server.

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