Trump administration admits to security breaches that had been outlined in whistleblower complaint
A whistleblower had said in August that employees of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency had misused Social Security Administration information.
Two Democratic congressmen are calling for a criminal investigation into the entity known as the Department of Government Efficiency after the Trump administration admitted in court filings that the organization shared Social Security data on an unauthorized private server.
“The ‘DOGE’ appointees engaged in this scheme — who were never brought before Congress for approval or even publicly identified — must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for these abhorrent violations of the public trust,” said House Social Security Subcommittee ranking member John Larson, a Connecticut Democrat, and Ways and Means Committee ranking member Richard Neal, a Democrat from Massachusetts, in a joint statement.
“Elon Musk and his ‘DOGE’ believe they are above the law and refused to appear before Congress. Republicans have blocked every effort to hold this administration accountable, voting down our resolutions demanding documents, even changing House Rules to shield ‘DOGE’ from accountability and protect themselves from having to take another vote on the issue,” Larson and Neal said.
Lambert here: Hmm. “Even changing House Rules.” Something to look into.
The disclosure mirrors what Chuck Borges, the former chief data officer at the SSA, said in his whistleblower complaint, warning that the private data of more than 300 million Americans was at risk after DOGE employees uploaded a copy of the Social Security Administration’s database to a cloud environment. Borges did not immediately respond to a MarketWatch request for comment.
Lambert here: I’m not sure that CloudFlare can be considered “a cloud environment.”
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