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Christy Bieber

UNCOVERED: Doge compromised social security data says whistleblower - Caught on Camera

A Social Security card that appears to be tampered with by identity theives.

If there's one piece of identifying data you don't want falling into the wrong hands, it's your Social Security number. That's why recent allegations from a whistleblower are so troubling.

On August 26, Charles Borges, the chief data officer (CDO) at the Social Security Administration (SSA), alleged that DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) employees copied ultrasensitive data to a cloud server that does not meet government standards for protecting data privacy.

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