DOGE Employees Shared Social Security Data, Court Filing Shows

DOGE employees detailed to the Social Security Administration shared sensitive data through a nonsecure third party server, in violation of agency security policies, according to a court filing disclosed by the Justice Department. The Social Security Administration does not know what data was shared on the server or whether it still exists there, the department said in a 16 January formal correction to statements that SSA officials made to a federal court in Maryland last spring.

The disclosure about the third‑party server confirms concerns among career government employees and data security experts that DOGE’s chaotic access to sensitive government data risks broad sharing without knowing what data was exposed or who has seen it. Last August, the SSA’s chief data officer, shortly before resigning, filed a whistleblower complaint over DOGE employees’ activities, saying they had shared a crucial database on a private server. Read more at The New York Times, according to The New York Times.