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... Chuck Borges, the SSA's Chief Data Officer (CDO), "has become aware through reports to him of serious data security lapses, evidently orchestrated by DOGE officials, currently employed as SSA employees, that risk the security of over 300 million Americans' Social Security data," the Government Accountability Project said in a letter sent today to members of Congress and the US Office of Special Counsel. The nonprofit Government Accountability Project is representing Borges.

Although it has been widely reported that DOGE sought and obtained access to Social Security records in its attempt to find evidence of fraud, the letter to lawmakers said the live copy of SSA's database hasn't previously been disclosed. DOGE's actions were taken "under the authority of SSA Chief Information Officer (CIO) Aram Moghaddassi" and violate SSA protocols and policies, the letter said. ...

In a statement provided to Ars today, the SSA denied storing data in an insecure environment and said it is not aware of any compromise. ...

@#1 ... it is not aware of any compromise. ...

Of course, SSA said it was not aware of a compromise.

Is it a compromise if the SSA did the alleged move of data?

@#3 ... The cloud is the compromise. ...

Yup.

But my main question remains --- why is DOGE copying the SSA data *anywhere*?

@#7 ... To test code, typically you wouldn't use production data, but SSA might not have a "test" deatbase. ...

To test their code, I'd say that the SSA has the appropriate tools and data available.

... You have never worked in IT have you? ...

I have worked in IT.

But, has your current alias ever worked in reality?

Do try harder.

@#5 ... They're a bunch of f!!king imbeciles. ...

Yeah, that would be my first thought.

But, then, I'd have to be curious about the reason why a copy of the entire SSA database would need to be copied to some apparently insecure cloud service.

OK, let me ask the question once again, and bluntly ...

What is Pres Trump's justification for the alleged wholesale copying of SSA data to an apparent insecure cloud website?

@11 ... As a taxpayer, I hope the cloud being used for illegal purposes FedRAMP approved. ...

@#10

OK, let me ask the question once again, and bluntly ...

What is Pres Trump's justification for the alleged wholesale copying of SSA data to an apparent insecure cloud website?

@#15 ... It's very likely that the DOGE MUSK-eteers uploaded every single file they could from every agency they could and most of it maybe on the cloud we're sitting in some server in Iceland or the Arctic somewhere. ...

While I may disagree with the details, overall, I agree.

Then there also seems to be the concern that I have mentioned in the past ...

What back-door access has DOGE left behind, and more importantly, who might have access to those back-doors, if they exist?

Asked differently, has DOGE given Pres Putin access to our government databases?