Someone walked out of Social Security with your identity on a thumb drive.
A whistleblower says a former DOGE employee left the Social Security Administration with records on more than 500 million living and dead Americans, the kind of information that defines a person, like race, citizenship, and your mother’s maiden name. He wanted to upload it to a private company’s systems and told colleagues he expected a presidential pardon if caught.
The SSA’s former chief data officer said there could be one copy or a million, and we will never know. None of this information can be changed the way a credit card number can, and once it’s copied, no investigation and no election puts it back. Call your senators and your representative today and demand an immediate congressional investigation into who was given access, where the data went, and what happens next.
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