Overview

• SSA chief data officer Charles Borges filed a complaint to the Office of Special Counsel and Congress alleging DOGE created a live cloud copy of the agency’s NUMIDENT database in June.
• Borges says the DOGE-managed environment lacked independent security controls or verified auditing and warns of identity theft and benefit disruptions if the data were compromised.
• The copied records reportedly cover hundreds of millions of individuals and include names, Social Security numbers, birth details, addresses and parents’ identifiers.
• Internal memos cited in the filing show CIO Aram Moghaddassi and DOGE-affiliated official Michael Russo approved the transfer, with Moghaddassi writing that he accepted all risks because the business need outweighed them.
• SSA says the data is kept in a long‑standing system walled off from the internet with no known compromise, after a Supreme Court ruling in June restored DOGE access that a March order had suspended.