{"id":534822,"date":"2026-03-14T00:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534822\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T00:44:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:44:28","slug":"ex-doge-member-says-he-took-social-security-data-to-new-job-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534822\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job: Whistleblower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A whistleblower complaint alleges a former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) software engineer removed Americans\u2019 personal data from the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) and stored it on a thumb drive, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/03\/10\/social-security-data-breach-doge-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a report<\/a> from The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblower said the engineer worked at the U.S. Social Security Administration last year and left in October to join a government contractor, where he told colleagues he \u201cpossessed two tightly restricted databases of U.S. citizens\u2019 information\u201d and planned to share that information with his new employer.<\/p>\n<p>Named databases included the \u201cNumident\u201d and the \u201cMaster Death File,\u201d which could cover records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers and birth data.<\/p>\n<p>Observers say the episode adds to a pattern of concerns about DOGE\u2019s work at the SSA, with earlier allegations of two DOGE members accessing off-limits Social Security numbers and a judge blocking DOGE from SSA systems last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Social Security Administration inspector general is investigating the whistleblower complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A whistleblower complaint alleges a former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) software engineer removed Americans\u2019 personal data from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-534822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}