Charles Borges resigned as Social Security Administration (SSA) chief data officer three days after alleging that the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded confidential data of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server. The insecure environment could enable identity theft, loss of health care and food benefits, and potentially require reissuing Social Security numbers at great cost. Borges said his resignation was involuntary and caused by physical, mental, and emotional distress resulting from the fallout of exposing the security risk. Borges described newly installed IT and executive leadership as creating a culture of panic, minimal information sharing, frequent talks of termination, and organizational dysfunction. Executives and employees feared retribution for raising concerns.
AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File The Social Security Administration's chief data officer, Charles Borges, resigned Friday, just three days after alleging that members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded the confidential data of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure server. Should bad actors gain access to this cloud environment, Americans may be susceptible to widespread identity theft, may lose vital health care and food benefits, and the government may be responsible for reissuing every American a new Social Security number at great cost, Borges wrote in his complaint on Tuesday.
I am regretfully involuntarily leaving my position at the Social Security Administration (SSA). This involuntary resignation is the result of SSA's actions against me, which make my duties impossible to perform legally and ethically, have caused me serious attendant mental, physical, and emotional distress, and constitute a constructive discharge. After reporting internally to management and externally to regulators serious data security and integrity concerns impacting our citizens' most sensitive personal data, I have suffered exclusion, isolation, internal strife, and a culture of fear, creating a hostile work environment and making work conditions intoler
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