DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data Is Named
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- John Solly, a former DOGE operative, is accused of storing sensitive SSA data on a thumb drive and intending to share it with his new employer, Leidos.
- Solly denies any wrongdoing, and Leidos found no evidence supporting the whistleblower's claims.
- The whistleblower complaint alleges Solly took copies of SSA's NUMIDENT and 'death master file' databases.
- Solly allegedly sought help transferring data from a thumb drive to a personal computer to 'sanitize' it for private-sector use.
- Leidos, a major SSA contractor, investigated and found no evidence of SSA data on its networks or Solly using unauthorized storage devices.
- SSA's chief data officer, Chuck Borges, previously accused DOGE of uploading sensitive SSA data to an unsecured cloud server.
- Borges' complaint named Solly and others for discussing moving NUMIDENT data to an insecure cloud environment.
- DOGE's activities at SSA included controversially moving immigrants' Social Security numbers to the 'death master file'.
- Solly worked on SSA's IT ticketing system and later on the EDEN 2.0 project, involving real-time Social Security number verification.
- EDEN was designed to share SSA data with financial institutions but could potentially be used for inter-agency data sharing.