Big DOGE blunder could require everyone be assigned a new Social Security number: report [View all]

By Travis Gettys
Published August 27, 2025 8:31AM ET

CNN's Matt Egan highlighted a stunning claim made in a whistleblower complaint filed by a high-ranking official in the Social Security Administration that could impact more than 300 million Americans.

The agency's chief data officer Chuck Borges alleges that DOGE staffers, including 19-year-old Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, uploaded a copy of all federal Social Security numbers and other highly sensitive information to an unsecured server in June, which he said posed an enormous risk to every American invested in the system.

"We knew that DOGE was taking its 'move fast, break things' attitude to the federal government," Egan told "CNN News Central." "Now we're learning more about some of the potential consequences there, and this stunning whistleblower complaint. It's not coming from some low-level employee or some intern, this is coming from the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, a.k.a. someone who would know. Now in this 18-page complaint, he alleges that among the critical data that was stored in this vulnerable cloud server, it includes people's names, their Social Security numbers, dates of birth, their addresses, citizenship status, even their parents' names – all of it stored in this cloud server."

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