DOGE Employees Copied 300 Million Americans' Personal Records to Vulnerable Cloud Server
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Social Security Administration employees copied personal records of nearly 300 million Americans to an insecure cloud server.
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Your sensitive personal data, including Social Security information, may have been exposed due to insecure government data handling.
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DOGE employees at the Social Security Administration copied personal records of approximately 300 million Americans to a cloud server with inadequate security protections, according to court filings and congressional testimony. The workers signed access agreements before transferring the massive databases to the vulnerable environment. The disclosure has triggered bipartisan backlash and multiple lawsuits challenging the legality of the data transfers.
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Multiple lawsuits have been filed challenging the legality of the unauthorized data transfer.
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