DOGE staffer had ‘God-level’ Social Security access and expected Trump’s pardon, whistleblower says
Members of Congress demand investigations after complaint alleges unprecedented breach of Americans’ data
A former employee with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency allegedly claimed he tapped into two sensitive Social Security Administration databases and intended to share the information with his private employer, according to an anonymous whistleblower complaint.
The complaint — filed with Social Security’s internal watchdog and first reported by The Washington Post — alleges that the U.S. DOGE Service staffer accessed two protected databases containing personal information, including Social Security numbers, for more than 500 million living and dead Americans.
The employee allegedly told the whistleblower who filed the complaint that he intended to move the data from a thumb drive to his personal computer “so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data” before taking it to his private employer.
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Name this fucker
Right? Why are they being protected? Name him and kill him.
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Exfiltrate the data before sanitizing it?
That's a bold strategy, Cotton.
The govt has some pretty strict controls on data and how sanitization works, and it typically involves very expensive equipment and filters.
But her emails
I think we need to start saying "But HIS E-mails".
I think I know what's going on my next protest sign.
Spys have been executed for less
He should have expected Trump's "golden shower". History has shown that's all he willingly gives the workers who do his will...
Are there state laws that let me sue him? Cause I want to sue him in a state where he will never be pardoned.
Civil lawsuits aren't pardonable anyway because pardons are for criminal offenses. You can't force him to be charged with a state level criminal offense.
Did he actually do the intended exfiltration? Is my info floating around on the dark web right now?
Yes. Experian and most everyone else who holds massive amounts of sensitive data has had data breaches, so most people's data is out there.