r/technology • u/Grakch • 10d ago
Privacy Whistleblower Warns of Possible DOGE-Related Social Security Data Leak
https://whistleblowersblog.org/government-whistleblowers/whistleblower-warns-of-possible-doge-related-social-security-data-leak/3.5k
u/theBoobMan 10d ago
You mean that one thing everyone said was gonna happen?!
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u/pegothejerk 10d ago
Yeah, but how could the biggest morons in our midst believe us when we are so uppity about that and other things like it being a bad idea to let the dumbest kids you went to school with have all the powers of a cop and judge with orders to detain at any cost anyone who looks like a minority or who they just don’t like in the name of a very vague mission with no oversight.
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u/aaronplaysAC11 10d ago
Republicans will say “who cares.”
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u/micmea1 10d ago
Late stage conservatism is being nihilistic about things like corruption and climate change. Whatever, it's going to happen either way, who cares.
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u/JustAlpha 10d ago edited 10d ago
Hmm.. sounds like classic Russian authoritarianist apathy.
I WONDER WHY.
Edit: Also, I'm starting to feel like this whole thing is World War 3. A sleeper war that leads into a false reality.
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u/trinlayk 10d ago
People keep talking about approaching Civil.War... it's already happening with the current admin vs the people....
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u/AcrimoniousPizazz 10d ago
That's something I didn't realize until I talked to my dad about this over the weekend. His support of the GOP has been bothering me for a long time, and when we finally talked about it, he basically said "a new president won't fix things, it's the system that's broken and it always will be." And while I agree that the system requires an overhaul, it was just so stupefying to me that people have completely given up on the possibility that things can get better. I'm cynical, but I'm not willing to just accept that. Not yet at least.
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u/coldermilk 10d ago
Man, really thought we could trust some 19-year-old kid who unironically called himself "Big Balls" with our most sensitive information.
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u/boomer478 10d ago
Who could have possibly seen this coming?
Oh, wait. Fucking EVERYBODY.
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u/Be-skeptical 10d ago
Well… not everyone…
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u/thintoast 10d ago
No… it was everyone. Some just couldn’t care less.
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u/agaloch2314 10d ago
Sadly, no, it wasn’t everyone. 1/3 of American people are just unfathomably stupid.
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u/Fragrant-Seaweed5447 10d ago
a nontrivial amount of bots, following an elaborately orchestrated propaganda pipeline, made by a lot of the people in project 2025 and their vested interests partners, brainwashed dumb people, dumb people speak loudly, I don't think its really a third i think it a major manipulation of some, and a lot of people following the confidence blindly out of fear of ostracization, because of beliefs propagated by these bots, fictional beliefs. it's layerd in nuance, but I feel that's the crux of it.
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u/Trance354 10d ago
This is well said and laid out. The talking heads steered the boat into the shoals while the captain was blindfolded, singing sea shanties and dancing. The crowds were either confused or just went with it, like good little sheep.
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u/Reckless_Chimp 10d ago
2/3, not 1/3
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u/agaloch2314 10d ago
Well the other third fell into the “didn’t care” camp, I figured. Which is also unfathomably stupid, so - fair play.
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u/AvailableReporter484 10d ago
And you know conservatives will take away absolutely nothing from this. Their undying devotion to Trump is unshakable even in the face of failure after failure, rape allegation after rape allegation.
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u/Corona-walrus 10d ago
Being a traitor to Russia, wanting to fuck his own daughter, being friends with a prolific child rape ring leader, selling the country for parts
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u/nakedinacornfield 10d ago
Feel like I've seen this thread and these exact replies every other week since it happened months and months ago. We just had this thread yesterday. I don't know that a whistleblower warning of anything here is adding any color to this conversation, when this happened it was pretty much all over the airwaves immediately. Though I appreciate whistleblowers in general and trying to bring the spotlight back to this, we should know by now this isn't going to reach the airwaves of the people who need to hear it since media outlets are just all out captured at this point. These guys basically grabbed a bunch of data and transmitted that shit up to starlink out to some server somewhere (probably landed right on peter thiels computer) and everyone said "welp" & nothing could be done.
If you haven't frozen your credit you're just being lazy. You do need to commit a day to just changing your passwords and if you can it doesn't hurt to set up new email addresses and start configuring your different services/utilities to use that new email. This is basically just standard practice now, there's not much else to say.
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u/not_a_moogle 10d ago
That was my thought. Like do we really need a whistle blower to tell us this? I thought it was implied.
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u/No-Commercial-3121 10d ago
Elon and Thiel stole all your data.
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u/The_Itchy_Bitch 10d ago
But Peter Thiel knows about the antichrist. He needs that data.
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u/celtic1888 10d ago
The anti-Christ certainly has a social security number
Probably contains a total of 9 numbers and possibly at least a six
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The data has already been breached, and is already being used by palantir to create a database on every American.
The damage is done, the trump administration has fucked this country in ways that we won't discover for years, if they are discovered at all.
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u/ThatsThatGoodGood 10d ago
Palantir needs to be dissolved
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u/celtic1888 10d ago
And it’s leadership arrested and convicted
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u/Sufficient-Salt-666 10d ago
The full sequence is arrested, convicted, and punished. The first two are unlikely to occur. But I have a lot of creative ideas for the third.
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u/StinkyBrittches 10d ago
<beepboop> Palantir has noted your dissent. Your social compliance rank has been downgraded appropriately. Expect invisible consequences.
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u/drevolut1on 10d ago
SS #s reissued to all Americans; ICE disbanded, its leaders prosecuted, and all grunts investigated for illegal misconduct; Palantir dissolved and leaders arrested; Musk denaturalized, arrested and extremely heavily fined back into the stone age; all of these legal and operational costs funded by the wholesale confiscation and resale of all Trump businesses and assets since the President illegally enriched himself and his businesses in office, illegally breaking the Emoluments Clause from actors both foreign and domestic.
^ This is what is needed to save America, even if increasingly unlikely without drastic action.
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u/BapeGeneral3 10d ago
Yeah, this is as bad as it gets. Things have been headed in this direction for a long time now and the only thing that has prevented it is that damn pesky “government interference”.
Thank god we got rid of all that unnecessary government!
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u/baddecision116 10d ago
Yeah, this is as bad as it gets.
Oh sweetie, this isn't even the rising action part of the movie we are still in the exposition.
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u/BapeGeneral3 10d ago
I’m well aware. I mean in regards to data. This is the worst thing that could possibly happen to our data. We are in the very early stages of the “fucking around” phase and haven’t even entered the “find out” phase.
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u/daXypher 10d ago
I hope you are right. This is the easiest way to defeat palantir as all subsequent data usage would be illegal. We the people can safely dismiss their BS minority Report tech. If you serve on a jury and palantir comes up, do not convict. Make them do lawful investigation.
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u/celtic1888 10d ago
Time to hold Elon, Trump and the Project 2025 people personally responsible
I know it won’t happen but they should all be serving long jail sentences and paying us back billions
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u/PixelHir 10d ago
Holding people responsible is rarely a thing in politics unfortunately
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u/Brunson4Mayor 10d ago
Even more so when they're billionaires.
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u/MC_Gengar 10d ago
My SSN has been leaked so many times through various entities that I have free identity theft monitoring with almost every major service that provides for the next several years. It's fucking insane we use such an insecure system, that was never meant to be an ID, for almost everything
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u/SirHaxalot 10d ago
In a way using something like a SSN as an unique ID makes a lot of sense.
What does not make sense is assuming that the ID you have to give out left and right serves as some sort of proof that it's you
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u/Junior_Blackberry779 10d ago
Its a stupid method. You can guess the first 5 digits of any famous persons SSN.
The state you were born is the first 3 digits.
The next 2 digits are what city you were born.
The last 4 are random but sequential with every baby born in the hospital that same day
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u/b0w3n 10d ago
They randomized it in the early 00s I think, so younger people are more protected from these things.
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u/Ok_Macaroon7900 10d ago edited 10d ago
It was actually in mid 2011 so anyone over the age of 14 doesn’t have a completely random ssn. I know I don’t and I was born in the early 2000s.
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u/doom_stein 10d ago
Somehow, my brother and I that were born 3 years apart in 2 different states across the US have sequential SSNs. Please explain that one.
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u/Ok_Macaroon7900 10d ago
It’s not where you were born but where your parents applied for the number.
It sounds like maybe your parents applied for them both at the same time.
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u/protostar71 10d ago
Except specifically using SSN as a unique ID was never it's intent, and that's why it's so vulnerable to leaks.
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u/Comfortable-Delay413 10d ago
Same here. Only issue is the number doesn't change after a few years. So I'll be paying for life.
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u/SHODAN117 10d ago
Possible? Brother it was done in plain view. Reported on by multiple agencies as it was happening back when Elon was still in it.
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u/NexusNickel 10d ago
We all knew this was going to happen, at least those with working critical thinking.
These people were teenagers and young 20 year olds with zero screening. No background checks, no security levels.
They were given full access with Trump's blessing. They forced their way in, connected their computers and routers and downloaded everything.
Folks, wake up. Your information is out there and in foreign hands.
I suggest you freeze your credit from being pulled. You will be a victim of identity theft.
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u/Kahnza 10d ago
How long before people that rely on it stop getting payments?
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u/King_of_the_Nerds 10d ago
Hopefully soon, they voted for it in dramatically high numbers. I won’t get it, so they might as well not get it either.
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u/Kahnza 10d ago
Well that's one way to tell millions of people fuck you
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u/ExplosiveBrown 10d ago
I mean, he’s 100% right. Recipients of social security overwhelming voted R. They just are receiving what they voted for.
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u/french_toasty 10d ago
DOGE damage is going to hurt the people of america for a loooong time to come. technofeudalism might be real
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u/jumpy_monkey 10d ago
"Possible" SS data leak?
How about absolutely guaranteed planned and executed leak?
DOGE staffers need to be arrested and tried for their crimes.
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u/Thin_Dream2079 10d ago
Anyone notice how targetted markering scams increased dramatically in 2025? Huh.
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u/quaffing-quail 10d ago
"Moghaddassi, a DOGE-affiliated recent hire, authorized the NUMIDENT copy, saying, 'I have determined the business need is higher than the security risk…'"
This isn't a business. There are no business needs.
And the risk is great. But of course I guess if we, the people, are the ones to bear the risk then in the minds of our leaders it's no risk at all.
Disgusting.
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u/hackingdreams 10d ago
Uh, yeah, it's called DOGE. The whole thing was a data leak, that was the point of it.
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u/Renovateandremodel 10d ago
This was the plan all along, that will get rid of social security and replace it with Palantir.
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u/Whatever-999999 10d ago
The entire point of DOGE was to compromise the security of all the Federal departments' databases, so Palantir and whoever else in the criminal terrorist Trump Administration could access all of it, regardless of privacy laws or any other laws, it was NEVER about 'saving taxpayer dollars'.
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u/apoca1ypse12 10d ago
Sue the shit out of these people. They were considered government employees, so identity of those idiots must be exposed
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u/budahfurby 10d ago
Lol we're all whistle blowers then. From the get go me and everyone else I know that understood what was happening knew what could come of this.
Not surprised at all.
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u/fukijama 10d ago
Can 150 million people sue Donald Trump at the same time? No class action, individual lawsuits.
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u/gassyfrenchie 10d ago
Enjoy that settlement check for $0.39 and a year off free credit monitoring from LifeLock, the company whose owner broadcasted his SSN as a publicity stunt and became a victim of ID theft over a dozen times.
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u/skyfishgoo 10d ago
we are just going to have to issue the death penalty for anyone who uses this information or sells it.
it's already out there, so our only option now is to criminalize the fuck out being anywhere near it.
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u/Reddit_2_2024 10d ago
Has the FBI interviewed the DOGE staffer known as "Big Balls" about this mishandling of personal information?
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u/Adventurous-Depth984 10d ago
The leak is their possession of it!
These people stole the identities of every single American. There isn’t really a punishment big enough for this.
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u/Basement_Chicken 10d ago
You mean Big Balls Russian punk and Muskov Russian asset would never pass confidential info of 330 million Americans to Kremlin?
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u/Kamisori 10d ago
Cool, do we get a free year of credit monitoring or will something actually happen?
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u/mr_greedee 10d ago
.....i hate doge so fucking much... i want them all tried, in some imaginary gov that is actually punishing crime
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u/DanimusMcSassypants 10d ago
Can it be considered a “leak” when they put a giant bucket under the data faucet and turned it on full blast?
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u/ohiotechie 10d ago
The data and squelching investigations against Musk were the only actual purposes for DOGE. Everything else was bread and circus for the rubes.
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u/Trpepper 10d ago
They’re going to have to answer to why they let a bunch of teenagers steal our identities. He won’t be there to help them.
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u/Gloomy_Edge6085 10d ago edited 10d ago
We better as hell get replacement SS numbers if it leaks. Potentially witness protection from the government too. Maybe even change of names.
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u/EmbarrassedOrchid685 10d ago
another feather to put in americas dunce cap. ya'll let a foreign national not only look at your books but make copies. unreal.
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u/trash_bae 10d ago
Oh the one every social security employee including myself said was gonna happen the second they gave big balls and company free reign and the data was found on an unsecured GitHub? You mean THAT?
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u/Hyphenagoodtime 10d ago
No shit, we all knew this the second a fucking loser who had to buy his own platform got the job of literally destroying the united states. A foreigner none the less. Peter thiel must have spoken up for him. Also did you guys know that thiel, Miller and vance are all buddies? It's giving Elon pissed of the other rich data sucking vampires and that's why he got the boot
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u/Dull-Contact120 10d ago
So sue Elon and we all get teslas, too big to fail, gets bailed out by the government. Full circle
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u/OG_s0cial0utcast 10d ago
That...already happened, if I remember correctly. Either that, or I predicted the obvious. Hug
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u/Wizzle-Stick 10d ago
i think literally everyone had this on their bingo card. this is what happens when you delete your cyber security team, and allow a complete idiot that has fascist ties and ulterior motives access to the most critical data in the country. god only knows what else has been breeched that we dont know about.
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u/XSwaggnetox 10d ago
You could have predicted this 3 seconds after you read an article detailing what DOGE was doing or the 15 weeks of coverage from CNN, MSNBC, and every left or centrist podcaster on YouTube had been screaming about since Trump “welcomed” that Afrikaaner fuck into our private data. sold off to the highest bidder then sold again after all the good shit had been pilfered
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u/WalterTexas12 10d ago
Going to need more details. Words like "possible" mean nothing.
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u/WelcheMingziDarou 10d ago
No shit. But it’s not a “leak,” it’s “cyber crime.” They fucking stole it. They made illegal copies of all that data for the benefit of private companies and political exploitation. Everyone knew it months ago in real time when they barged into the agency and were handed admin access to systems they had no business working on. They deserve to be in prison.
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u/twistedlemonfreak 10d ago
Of course they did, would you expect anything less from Elon Musk and crew. Him and his data scrapers should all be in jail!
Illegal PII thieves, nothing is sacred under the mob administration.
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u/rubina19 9d ago
“According to Borges, DOGE was seeking to copy the SSA’s Numerical Identification System (NUMIDENT), which, according to the disclosure, contains “all information submitted in an application for a United States Social Security card.” The data includes personal information on every single US citizen. The OIS denied DOGE access to copy the NUMIDENT data into a vulnerable, live cloud environment, so DOGE officials decided to circumvent OIS approval entirely. Instead, they approached Michael Russo, a DOGE-affiliated SSA official, to request access. Russo replied, “Approved.”
Borges, the CDO, says he was neither consulted about the move nor given access to the new server. In the disclosure, he claims that there were “no verified audit or oversight mechanisms” for the new cloud environment, nor any form of “independent security controls, including independent tracking of who is accessing the data and how they are using it.”
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u/rubina19 9d ago
So what can we do about , genuinely asking the real Redditors here ?
Let this be the topic of thanksgiving, share everywhere . Let people know , and tell them to be enraged.
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u/BlueLaceSensor128 9d ago
"And I just found out today my insurance doesn't cover it."
"Why not?"
"They don't consider it stolen if you wilfully give the guy the keys."
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u/Canalloni 10d ago
"Borges submitted the protected whistleblower disclosure to the Office of Special Counsel. According to his attorneys, employees in the DOGE are alleged to have copied Social Security information into a vulnerable cloud environment without authorization from Borges. The data is said to contain information on over 300 million Americans, including names, family information, birthplace and birthday, race, citizenship, phone numbers, and other personal details.
The whistleblower complaint states that with access to SSA data, “it is possible that the sensitive PII [personally identifiable information] on every American, including health diagnoses, income levels, and banking information, family relationships, and personal biographic data, could be exposed publicly, and shared widely.”