Privacy News DOGE employee may have stolen data of hundreds of millions of Americans

[Brownie2019]

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The Social Security Administration’s inspector general is investigating a whistleblower report claiming that the former employee of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, took sensitive data and stored it on a thumb drive.

The former DOGE engineer claimed he had access to two highly sensitive agency databases and planned to share that information with his private employer, according to the whistleblower complaint reported by The Washington Post.

If true, the allegations would constitute an unprecedented breach at the agency that handles the data of more than 70 million Americans.
The former employee, who was not named by The Washington Post, worked at the Social Security Administration last year before leaving in October for a job at a government contractor.

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[Wrecker4923]

Forgive me for being cynical. When EM had an unrestricted role in the government like that and was allowed to gather a lot of data from different departments, you'd expect that Grok would have access to such data. EM would have access, some of his inner circle (including the reputed hacker?) would have access, and due to a lack of oversight in security, some of his engineers would have access as well (hey, move fast and break things!). It was broken before, and now it's even more broken.