A closed entrance to the Social Security Administration Headquarters sits empty in Woodlawn, MD on Thursday, March 20, 2025. Wesley Lapointe/The Washington Post/Getty Images
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A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official copied the Social Security numbers, names, and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private server accessible by other former DOGE employees and lacking adequate security, potentially putting an enormous amount of private information at risk to being revealed and possibly used by identity thieves.
In a written complaint filed through the non-profit Government Accountability Project, Charles Borges, the chief data