{"id":515903,"date":"2026-03-10T23:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/515903\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:17:07","slug":"doge-member-took-social-security-data-on-a-thumb-drive-whistleblower-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/515903\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGE member took Social Security data on a thumb drive, whistleblower alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DBSR5OSDAFEKJGSSWC6XGX56TY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Social Security Administration\u2019s internal watchdog is investigating a complaint that alleges a former U.S. DOGE Service employee claimed he had access to two highly sensitive agency databases and planned to share the information with his private employer \u2014 a claim that, if true, would constitute an unprecedented breach of security protocols at an agency that serves more than 70 million Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Social Security Administration\u2019s internal watchdog is investigating a complaint that alleges a former U.S. DOGE Service employee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-515903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}