Overview

• Charles Borges submitted what he called an involuntary resignation days after alleging DOGE personnel created a live copy of SSA’s Numident data in an AWS cloud environment outside normal oversight.
• His filing says records for more than 300 million people, including Social Security numbers and details such as health, income, and banking information, were put at risk by the cloud setup.
• The Social Security Administration disputes any compromise, saying the referenced environment is long-standing, walled off from the internet, and administered by career officials with security oversight.
• Borges says he faced retaliation, exclusion, and a culture of fear after raising concerns, describing his departure as a constructive discharge in his letter to Commissioner Frank Bisignano.
• The Government Accountability Project confirmed it represents Borges and submitted his disclosure to the Office of Special Counsel, while WIRED reported that his resignation email briefly disappeared from staff inboxes.