Social Security’s inspector general is probing a whistleblower complaint that a former employee of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency claimed he had access to two Social Security databases and planned to share them with a new employer, a report said Tuesday, the latest security accusation in the post-DOGE era.
The allegation, reported by the Washington Post, follows accusations by a previous whistleblower that DOGE employees uploaded Social Security data into the cloud and compromised the Social Security numbers of every American.
The Social Security Administration denied the allegations and accused the paper of trying to scare seniors with “fake news.”
“Allegations that a ‘DOGE bro’ may have removed highly sensitive Social Security data onto a thumb drive should set off alarm bells across the country,” said Richard Fiesta, executive director of the Alliance for Retired Americans. “If these reports are accurate, it is a stunning, illegal data-security breach.”
Lambert here: “DOGE bro” is so, so unhelpful.
“These continued revelations demand a full investigation with accountability if wrongdoing is confirmed. This is criminal, and the result of a year of lawlessness and mismanaging the people’s data,” Rep. John Larson, a Connecticut Democrat, and Richard Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a joint statement.
Lambert here: So first we “confirm” wrongdoing, and only then investigate?
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