On Friday, Chuck Borz, chief of social security data, sent an email to the agency employees and claimed that he had been forced out of the whistle this week and accused the agency of abusing sensitive agency data. A few minutes after the email was completed, the employee’s inbox disappeared, two SSA sources refer to wired.
“I am sorry and involuntarily leaving my position in the Social Security Office (SSA),” Borges wrote in a letter to employees obtained by Wired. “This involuntary resignation is the result of SSA’s actions against me, which is impossible to perform my duties legally and morally, cause me to be a serious mental, physical, and emotional discomfort for me and a constructive discharge.”
Less than 30 minutes after receiving the email, mysteriously disappeared from the employee’s inbox, SSA sources refer to Wired. It is still unclear whether this email was not available after, but the reason for the disappearance of the email has not been clear immediately. One of the SSA employees guess it is deleted because it is very important for the agency.
“This has certainly not painted CIO leadership with optimum light,” says an SSA source, referring to SSA senior information officer.
According to the federal record in 1950, US agencies are usually required by law to maintain internal records, including email.
Independent Journalist Marisa Kabas was first reported on BlueSky’s posts on the resignation of Borges and the disappearance of her email.
Neither Borges nor SSA immediately responded to comment requests.
The “involuntary resignation” comes a few days after Borges presented the official whistle complaint to the US Special Advisor Office, which has the government’s efficiency (DOGE) to upload SSA data wrong, which includes very sensitive information about millions of social security numbers to an insecure cloud server. Borges claims that the “live” data loading of SSA to a cloud server is illegal outside the agency’s protocols and can put the data at risk of hacking or pulling.
“Recently, I have been aware of several projects and events that may violate federal statutes or regulations, including the safety and safety of high -value data assets in the cloud, may have provided unauthorized or inappropriate access to agency data storage solutions, and may include exchanging unauthorized data with other agencies.”
In a statement to the New York Times, a SSA spokesman, Nick Parin defended agency data security practices, claiming that sources of Borges data complain “via the Internet”.
“SSA stores all personal data in safe environments that have strong protection to protect vital information,” Perin said. “The data referred to in this complaint are stored in a long -standing environment used by SSA and used the Internet. High -level professional SSA authorities have administrative access to the system under the supervision of the SSA Information Security Team.”
The Borges whistle complaint contained documents showing that DOGE John Sali, working under SSA, asked a job agency employee to copy NUMIDENT data, a master database comprising a lifelong record of all SSN owners, to the “virtual private cloud”, which is a complaint as a controlled SSA server. According to the complaint, Edward “Big Balls” Coristine was also involved in the project.
“Mr Borges’s disclosure includes violations, including violations of systemic data security, unparalleled administrative access to highly sensitive manufacturing environments and possible violations of SSA internal security protocols and federal privacy laws by DOGE staff, Edward Coristine, Aram Maghassasi, John Cellular and Michael Rousseau.” “These measures violate laws, laws and regulations, abuse of authority, unpleasant mismanagement, and a major threat to public health and safety.”
Neither Coristine, Moghaddasi, Solly nor Russo responded immediately to the Wired request for comment.
