"Borges filed a whistleblower complaint in August, accusing employees of the Trump-decreed, formerly Musk-helmed cost-cutting unit - which is not an official government agency formed by Congressional authority - of making an unauthorized copy of Numident, the SSA database that contains records of every single person who has ever applied for a Social Security Number."
"According to Borges, the DOGE copy (a live duplicate of the real Numident database) was created without adherence to SSA security policy and, even more shockingly, it was placed in a cloud environment outside of SSA's management. Borges said that the duplicate was administered by a pair of DOGE employees, not the SSA infrastructure administrators who are supposed to manage the Administration's digital services."
Charles Borges, former SSA Chief Data Officer, filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that DOGE created an unauthorized, unsecured live copy of Numident, the database of all Social Security applicants. The duplicate allegedly was placed in a cloud environment outside SSA management and administered by DOGE employees rather than SSA infrastructure administrators. DOGE is described as a Trump-decreed, formerly Musk-helmed cost-cutting unit lacking congressional formation. Senator Mike Crapo requested explanations from SSA amid Borges' resignation and retaliation claims. The SSA provided a canned denial and shared Commissioner Frank Bisignano's response but declined to answer additional queries.
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