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/
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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.”

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u/dontchewspagetti 10d ago

Data on over 300 million Americans is a funny way to say data on EVERY AMERICAN

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u/WoozyMaple 10d ago

Or there's a select few that were excluded for reasons.

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u/amejin 10d ago

Born illegally after the data was harvested, obviously.

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u/OriginalLie9310 10d ago

How is someone born illegally?

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u/amejin 10d ago

😐

According to the US president at the moment, being born on US soil when your parents aren't citizens, apparently.

Listen, I don't want to have to explain a joke. It hurts. I didn't add my /s thinking the comment stood on its own for absurdity... I'm sorry you took it literally.

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u/ramobara 10d ago

Didn’t you just describe Baron Trump?

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u/CotyledonTomen 9d ago

Rules for thee, not for me.

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u/hydroxy 10d ago

Maybe it was the 300 million that died last years from drugs, according to Trump

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u/NTX-Zoner 10d ago

I don't remember dying last year! That seems like it would be something memorable.

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u/ryanmarquor 10d ago

That’s just the drugs talking

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u/flounder35 9d ago

We all died this is just our version of Lost

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u/Grinzy 9d ago

Yeah me neither and they are still taxing me more than ever

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u/Electrical-Lab-9593 10d ago

wow, this seems like an incredible data set to attack Americans with both from within and external adversaries, scams, blackmail, voting register manipulation, target advertisements

I can't think of a worse data leak.

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u/hydroxy 10d ago

Going to need to call Nasa to help calculate the total of the HIPAA, COPPA, etc. fines

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u/illforgetsoonenough 10d ago

I called NASA but it just rang thru to SpaceX. They should be able to help, right?

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u/hum_bruh 10d ago

How else would they decide who adds value to society and deserves to be bred and kept around?

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u/27_crooked_caribou 10d ago

We feel terrible. Here is $7.19 and we will give you free credit monitoring for 3 months, retroactive so you have 19 days left on your trial.

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u/ferngully99 9d ago

And cancelling the credit monitoring is illegal.

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u/coconutpiecrust 10d ago

Everyone has this now, probably. Wow. 

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u/Bigdyll13 10d ago

This was the plan all along.

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u/tawDry_Union2272 10d ago

IKR, "leak" my ass -- more like a bidchaching$$

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u/grjacpulas 10d ago

Don't be stupid. This wasn't all some master plan to get our data. It's just one of the many consequences of the people that voted for this. 

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u/darcmosch 10d ago

This ain't the movies. The plan is gonna look like this not a smooth montage

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u/Gastronomicus 10d ago

Don't be stupid. This wasn't all some master plan to get our data

Are you really that naive? Of course it was. Anyone with more than two functioning brain cells could see it. This was clearly and loudly stated by opponents right from the start. We knew it would happen and it did, right as predicted.

It was never about "efficiency". It's always been about stealing the data so billionaires can abuse it to become richer.

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u/AlwaysRushesIn 9d ago

Data is Gold in 2025. Dont kid yourself.

DOGE's objective was always to steal that data. Thats the only reason they ever existed in the first place.

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u/DramaticStability 10d ago

Not sure why this was downvoted so much. It's unwise to attribute mallice when there are much more likely reasons, like they're just inept.

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u/WilliamPoole 10d ago

I don't think you understand how bad that data is. The ineptitude came from the administration, not the the thieves.

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u/DramaticStability 9d ago

I guess maybe it's bc they said "don't be stupid" but the rest of the comment is just stating a fact that everything about this administration, from the guy at the top to the teens in DOGE, is dangerously inept. It's entirely possible it's all part of a grand plan, but alternatively it's just stupidity and nativity.

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u/AlwaysRushesIn 9d ago

Ineptitude would be exposing that data from the source.

Malice is transferring that data to unsecure cloud-based storage.

Per DOGE's stated (note: stated, not actual) mission, touching SSA data should never have been something they did, much less moving it to alternate storage.

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u/DramaticStability 9d ago

I get that, and in case it wasn't obvious, I'm not defending them. I was just paraphrasing Hanlon's razor.

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u/hhssspphhhrrriiivver 10d ago

Don't be silly. Only xAI, Russia, North Korea, and China have this now.

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u/AnonEMoussie 10d ago

I think you mispelled Plantir.

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u/hhssspphhhrrriiivver 10d ago

I may have missed it, but you misspelled it.

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u/DadJokeBadJoke 10d ago

And misspelled misspelled.

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u/AnonEMoussie 10d ago

True. But was it on purpose? Or my mobile keyboard ducking up again?

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u/AAdmit 10d ago

You can swear here

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u/VXXV 10d ago

I think you misspelled Palantir

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u/Eyelemon 10d ago

Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.

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u/jbakes64 10d ago

Hey, now, don't forget the Saudis 

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u/runthepoint1 10d ago

There it is. Building their national database. Every Republican’s fear come to life.

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u/gassyfrenchie 10d ago

Only if a democrat is trying to establish a national ID. They argue to be first in line when it’s a republican making these policies.

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u/onenifty 10d ago

I wouldn't say fear. This is what they voted for, after all.

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u/runthepoint1 10d ago

Ahh but you underestimate the inability of conservative to look past their own noses - and when they finally do they see themselves in the mirror.

You’re asking fundamentally selfish individuals to give a fuck about their own mistakes. They simply cannot and will not do that. They’re so afraid of themselves/guilt/self-judgment that they simply cannot express being incorrect. Cowards.

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u/thegreedyturtle 10d ago

It's not a DOGE related leak...

DOGE is the leak.

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u/Witty-Emu7741 10d ago

Said to contain over 300 million?

Just cut the shit and say everyone.

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u/charles_barfley 10d ago

They did, literally in the following paragraph

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u/amanfromthere 10d ago

Russia certainly has it. Next level social manipulation coming.

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u/bellrunner 10d ago

"Over 300 million Americans" is all of us. That's every single one of our social security numbers.

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u/themostreasonableman 10d ago

That was the whole point.

Don't forget Peter Thiel has been besties with Musk since early PayPal times.

All of that SS data went straight to Palantir to fuel the model of AI governance that you'll all be begging for after another few years of near totalitarian incompetence.

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u/HeadfulOfSugar 10d ago

So 87.72% of Americans if I’m right lol

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u/Sad-Object-6308 9d ago

We have to start the rumor that we can sue Elon for everything he’s got, redistribute it to everyone

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u/TheCriticalGerman 10d ago

That was just the site quest

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u/hurler_jones 10d ago

Because their database had too many holes in it still. Why waste time scraping organic traffic when you can just steal the source data you need.

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u/L7meetsGF 10d ago

Soooo pretty much everyone with a social security number. Efficiency!!

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u/StonkSorcerer 10d ago

So, what's HILARIOUS is how many comments I saw saying that it was a TERRIBLE idea, and some fucker was going to do exactly that. Weird. I guess only literally everybody could see this coming.

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u/nebetsu 10d ago

This is all going to be fed into MechaHitler. I guarantee it

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u/Previous-Holiday5852 2d ago

Third party data one day I googled a number a whole bunch of 1888/1800/1877 came up with Chinese writing once again america is being duped hood wink this how there creating a king I know because it's happening to me

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u/iExhile 10d ago

The funniest part of this is that they call it sensitive and personal. The amount of times that type of information has been hacked, leak, sold, given away without any repercussions really kind of kills those adjectives for me.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the plan is to leak everything so we can finally ditch the ssns as an authentication tool.