CNN's Matt Egan highlighted a stunning claim made in a whistleblower complaint filed by a high-ranking official in the Social Security Administration that could impact more than 300 million Americans.
The agency's chief data officer Chuck Borges alleges that DOGE staffers, including 19-year-old Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, uploaded a copy of all federal Social Security numbers and other highly sensitive information to an unsecured server in June, which he said posed an enormous risk to every American invested in the system.
"We knew that DOGE was taking its 'move fast, break things' attitude to the federal government," Egan told "CNN News Central." "Now we're learning more about some of the potential consequences there, and this stunning whistleblower complaint. It's not coming from some low-level employee or some intern, this is coming from the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, a.k.a. someone who would know. Now in this 18-page complaint, he alleges that among the critical data that was stored in this vulnerable cloud server, it includes people's names, their Social Security numbers, dates of birth, their addresses, citizenship status, even their parents' names – all of it stored in this cloud server."
"Charles Borges, the whistleblower here," Egan added, "says that the copy of the database apparently lacks any security oversight from the agency or even tracking to determine who has access, and he wrote in this complaint, should bad actors gain access to this cloud environment, Americans may be susceptible to widespread identity theft, may lose health care and food benefits."
The whistleblower warned in his complaint that Americans might be forced to give up the nine-digit numbers they have memorized and be assigned another one to protect their private information.
"He went on to say that the government could even be responsible for having to reissue every single American a new Social Security number at great cost," Egan said, "and he said, look, he did sound the alarm internally, repeatedly. He said that he warned people internally that something was wrong, but he said to his knowledge, no action was taken."
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