That’s it. We’re all doomed in the U.S. after this

Be prepared for a diatribe. Not because I blame the author(s) for publishing it, but you’ll see when we’re done.

I’ve had it with the stupidity of this fucking country, just keep reading for more.

The first question I have isn’t critical of the article itself, but why the fuck did it take so long for us to know that the government of inefficiency was doing this stupid shit?

A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal information of most Americans at risk of compromise.

Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, said in a newly released whistleblower complaint published Tuesday that other top agency officials signed off on a decision in June to upload “a live copy of the country’s Social Security information in a cloud environment that circumvents oversight,” despite Borges raising concerns.

The article continues:

Borges said members of DOGE, the team of former Elon Musk employees appointed to government under the guise of reducing fraud and waste, copied the sensitive database to an agency-run Amazon-hosted cloud server “apparently lacking in independent security controls,” such as who was accessing the data and how they were using it.

The lack of security protections violated internal agency security controls and federal privacy laws, the complaint alleges.

Also,

The complaint said any compromise or unauthorized access to the database would have “catastrophic impact” on the U.S. Social Security program, describing a worst-case scenario as potentially having to reissue everyone’s Social Security numbers.

My question is how they’re going to reissue everyone supposedly affected new numbers. I know my number is 550, and while I don’t know my father’s social for example, I believe I see the last 4 digets based on communication I get from SSA.

So, if they are going to do this, how would everyone get new ones? Even the dead?

While a federal restraining order in March initially blocked DOGE staffers from accessing the country’s database of Social Security records, the Supreme Court lifted the order on June 6, paving the way for DOGE’s access.

Why? Who the fuck was responsible for that? We know the department of government inefficiency as we call it on TSB has been up to no good, now this?

I’ve got some serious questions on why this was done. This is probably going to be the end of privacy as we know it.

The agency’s chief information officer Aram Moghaddassi approved the move to copy the database to the agency’s cloud, saying he “determined the business need is higher than the security risk” and that he accepts “all risks” with the project. The complaint also says Michael Russo, a senior DOGE operative who previously served as the agency’s chief information officer prior to Moghaddassi but remains at the agency, also approved moving live Social Security data to the cloud.

Why would you even approve this even though you know there is a risk?

Borges said he first raised issues internally at the agency but later blew the whistle to urge members of Congress to “engage in immediate oversight to address these serious concerns,” according to a statement by his attorney, Andrea Meza, at the Government Accountability Project.

I might have done the same thing, especially after this.

The white house basicly referred comment back to the SSA.

When reached by TechCrunch, Elizabeth Huston, a spokesperson for the White House, would not say if the administration was aware of the complaint and deferred comment to the Social Security Administration.

They claim no responsibility of anything this year.

In an emailed response, Social Security Administration spokesperson Nick Perrine said the agency “stores personal data in secure environments that have robust safeguards in place to protect vital information.”

That’s nice. But it just got fucking exfiltrated out under your fucking nose.

This section continues:

“The data referenced in the complaint is stored in a long-standing environment used by SSA and walled off from the internet. High-level career SSA officials have administrative access to this system with oversight by SSA’s Information Security team,” the spokesperson added.

That’s nice, but is this the same information that was put up on AWS, or is it different than the data pilfered from the company?

To add insult to injury:

The spokesperson said the agency was “not aware of any compromise to this environment.”

I spotted this on Mastodon when opening it for something I needed to look at dealing with followers, and spotted this by Mr. Brian Krebs.

I wonder what the agency is going to say for itself now? Probably nothing.

Read the full tech crunch article: DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower and have fun with this!