Doge improperly shared sensitive social security data, DoJ court filing reveals
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A Justice Department court filing reveals that the Trump administration's "department of government efficiency" (Doge) improperly accessed and shared Americans' social security data. The filing, submitted in an ongoing lawsuit, states that a Doge member signed a secret data-sharing agreement in March with a political advocacy group aiming to overturn election results. The Social Security Administration (SSA) was unaware of the agreement and discovered it during a review in November, referring potential Hatch Act violations to the Office of Special Counsel. Doge members shared data using an unauthorized third-party server, Cloudflare, and in one instance, a staffer sent a file potentially containing names and addresses of 1,000 people to a senior advisor. These revelations contradict previous SSA denials of any data compromise by Doge, which was temporarily barred from accessing sensitive information by a federal judge.
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