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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 108 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Whistleblowers, including Borges, alleged "that Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old DOGE staffer who was previously fired from a job for leaking company data to a competitor, and other DOGE personnel had been granted permission to move highly sensitive SSA data into an unmonitored cloud environment," the Senate Democratic report said. "The whistleblowers said that DOGE has uploaded a live copy of NUMIDENT, which contains highly sensitive personal data on anyone who has held a social security number, including every American. This includes social security numbers (SSNs), place and date of birth, work permit status, and parents' names, among other sensitive personal information, for all Americans, to a cloud environment."

SSA Chief Information Officers Michael Russo and Aram Moghaddassi, who are described as "DOGE-affiliated," allegedly "granted approval for the data move despite a June 12, 2025 internal risk assessment flagging a high level of risk and potentially catastrophic impact to SSA beneficiaries and SSA programs absent additional controls to safeguard against unauthorized access," the report said.

That internal risk assessment by SSA employees "evaluated the likelihood of such catastrophic impact to be between 35 and 65 percent," with the potential for widespread disclosure of personally identifiable information, the report said.

They put a 19-year-old in charge and judged there was a 35%-65% chance of catastrophically compromising every American citizen's personal data, then went ahead and did it anyway? These people need to be prosecuted.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago

They can compromise the data of every US citizen but we can't see all the evidence of Musk in the Epstein files.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 51 points 3 months ago

Aside from the security guard, the DOGE offices appeared to be empty on a Thursday afternoon, the report said. Senate staff were told "that DOGE staff had telework agreements with the agency. SSA officials confirmed that DOGE were the only individuals who had this approved telework structure in the entire CIO’s office. SSA officials could not answer questions about the telework agreements, including a reason for the telework exception and who approved the agreements."

They converted offices to "living spaces"...

But they're teleworking, so they're not there?

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 months ago

So efficient they stole the funds for window blinds and locksmiths.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Plastic trash bags? That should settle questions about their general level of competence. How in the fuck do they not know about using paper yard-waste/grocery bags or strips of tinfoil in a pinch? We're talking one $5 solution vs. another, except the plastic doesn't work nearly half as well.

[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that you're expecting basic competency here.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not expecting it from them, it's just that it's somehow more galling in light of the latitude and resources they've been given. The motherfuckers can't even improvise blinds, and they're tapped into Federal databases?

[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Agreed, but on the other hand they're not grifting efficiently if they spend resources on things that matter.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago

They'd have to go out and spend money on the foil. They probably had plenty of garbage bags in the janitor's closet already on hand.

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

They only just now went to look at the offices?!

[–] Cringedrif@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago
[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Just like he runs his companies ... Musk made this a shit show with him at the center and a bunch of sycophants and stunads doing the dirty work. The work was stealing data.