Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

MarcusGregor said:

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Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls, the Justice Department revealed in newly disclosed court papers.​

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Elizabeth Shapiro, a top Justice Department official, said SSA referred both DOGE employees for potential violations of the Hatch Act, which bars government employees from using their official positions for political purposes.​

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Shapiro’s previously unreported disclosure, dated Friday, came as part of a list of “corrections” to testimony by top SSA officials during last year’s legal battles over DOGE’s access to Social Security data. They revealed that DOGE team members shared data on unapproved “third-party” servers and may have accessed private information that had been ruled off-limits by a court at the time.​

Who could have known this would happen??

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Who, indeed?

MarcusGregor said:

Shapiro’s previously unreported disclosure, dated Friday, came as part of a list of “corrections” to testimony by top SSA officials

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Sorry, we lied. We good?

See also:

DOGE put Social Security numbers and other data on a risky server, whistleblower alleges​

The Social Security Administration said it is "not aware of any compromise" to the server and "remains dedicated to protecting sensitive personal data."

The report, filed by the chief data officer for the Social Security Administration (SSA), Charles Borges, alleges that the actions of multiple DOGE staffers “constitute violations of laws, rules, and regulations, abuse of authority, gross mismanagement and creation of a substantial and specific threat to public health and safety.”

Borges' complaint accuses SSA Chief Information Officer Aram Moghaddassi, a longtime ally of Elon Musk, of violating agency policies to “create a live copy of the country’s Social Security information in a cloud environment that circumvents oversight,” in violation of multiple federal statutes.

Following the high court’s ruling [giving DOGE access to SSA data], DOGE staffers requested to move the SSA's database, known as "Numident," to a private cloud server that only DOGE personnel could access “without any independent security or oversight mechanisms in place in violation of laws and creating enormous vulnerabilities," the complaint said.

MarcusGregor said:

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/20/trump-musk-doge-social-security-00737245?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls, the Justice Department revealed in newly disclosed court papers.​

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Elizabeth Shapiro, a top Justice Department official, said SSA referred both DOGE employees for potential violations of the Hatch Act, which bars government employees from using their official positions for political purposes.​

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Shapiro’s previously unreported disclosure, dated Friday, came as part of a list of “corrections” to testimony by top SSA officials during last year’s legal battles over DOGE’s access to Social Security data. They revealed that DOGE team members shared data on unapproved “third-party” servers and may have accessed private information that had been ruled off-limits by a court at the time.​

Who could have known this would happen??

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Recall the court ruling where a Judge seen DOGE having no reason to access people's SSA information. Of course the conservative Roberts wing of SCOTUS overruled that, with Judge Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warning of the need to protect that data in her dissent. Now look what happened.

Nice credit history you have. Be a shame if something happened to it.

Is anyone ok with thus?