Big DOGE blunder could require everyone be assigned a new Social Security number: report

[turbinetree]

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."

https://www.rawstory.com/doge-social-security-2673924622/

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[unblock]

2. Why should we think this was a "blunder" rather than entirely intentional?

[Hornedfrog2000]

20. Makes it easier for the media,

and even some political people to move on for the good of the country.

[Irish_Dem]

26. Of course it was not a "blunder." Stealing data was the primary goal.

[AllaN01Bear]

43. if they want my personal data so bad pay me $20.bucks an hour.

[Irish_Dem]

54. You paid the thieves to steal your data.

They are on the federal payroll.

[Ars Longa]

29. If Biden or Obama did this kind of mal-administration--just think of the RW

24/7 outrage!

[Rebl2]

57. My

thought too. This idiot should go to prison when found guilty.

[Ocelot II]

3. The whistleblower will be fired and nothing else will be done.

[turbinetree]

5. IS there any means to file a suit against Trump, Big Balls, and Musk............

[Ocelot II]

7. Not really.

[Jilly_in_VA]

10. Not even class action?

[Ocelot II]

15. Class action requirements aren't that easy to satisfy.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_23 One of the requirements is that the class has to be manageable. If the class in this case would consist of everybody with a Social Security number, it would probably be pretty unmanageable.

[Irish_Dem]

27. Supreme Court will side with the Trump Crime Syndicate.

As per usual.

[yellow dahlia]

61. I am asking the same question. Class action lawsuit?

They were clearly violating the Privacy Act of 1974, as well as the privacy parameters in the original language of the bill. making Social Security law, in 1935.

But SCOTUS gave them a pass.

[reACTIONary]

39. Probably not....

.... whistle blowers are protected from retaliation, and that would be too egregious. They will probably end up deleting the data from the cloud, if that hasn't already been done.

[Orrex]

41. Not true!

They’ll also be doxxed and threatened.

[get the red out]

42. Maybe not

He will be fired for sure, but I think the "something else" will probably be him being charged with severe BS and convicted in a BS court!

[Celerity]

51. I wager you are correct.

[GoCubsGo]

4. Wow. Who saw that coming?

I mean, besides everyone who has been paying attention to this. It took the fucking media long enough to report it...

[durablend]

6. Got news for you--the dark web already has that info

And you're naive if you think otherwise.

[Mad_Machine76]

8. So it doesn't matter

Then?!

[Hornedfrog2000]

23. Yup,

Between the multiple credit agencies, and the hospitals which were hacked, that alone is enough to have over half of our info. The one credit agency had like 150 million hostages, err customers, information hacked alone. I think they offered 1 year of credit monitoring. Seems kind of, pointless? They lost our social security numbers to hackers for life, but here is 1 year of credit monitoring (from them mind you). This country is so stupid.

[EdmondDantes_]

9. Not that this wasn't dangerous and stupid, it's still a lot of maybe

Maybe the data was exposed. Of course if the idiots had proper security with logging we could say for sure, but it's kind of wait and hope situation. Although as noted by another poster much of this is already available and we really probably should do a new Social Security number or similar but with better security. Too many other areas have used that number for other things. But that's unlikely to happen barring an absolute disaster because companies can offer us a year of credit report watching and security is hard.

[Dr. T]

37. I change passwords on my web-based accounts every now and then.

Much as I hate it, a new social security number would ease my troubled mind. I'd prefer to wait until Dimwit Donny has stopped breathing.

[Tree Lady]

47. I just keep thinking they

Will screw it up worse if they do new numbers.

[yellow dahlia]

62. I had that same thought.

[Jilly_in_VA]

11. Dammit

I've had the same one since I was 16.I have it memorized and could reel it off in my sleep. I'm 82 now and would hate to have to learn a new one.

[Basso8vb]

12. It is long past time to start hunting these motherfuckers down.

[Hotler]

13. Musk and his doge crew should be charged with identity theft and violation of HIPAA of millions of Amercians. nt

[Silent Type]

14. Great, everytime we have to look up our new SSN we can curse trump. That would be a mess for everyone.

[Torchlight]

16. Degenerate, incompetent idiots to the last one. All of 'em

Coristine's skeevy story is only the most recent stink on this carcass-politic.

[tanyev]

17. A new SSN issued by the Trump administration would be no more secure than the original.

Unless maybe you were willing and able to pay a ridiculous amount of money for a Super Premium Trump Securecard!

[milestogo]

18. Can we crush Big Balls and Musk balls in a vise?

I would enjoy that.

[ParanoidAndroid]

19. This was no boating accident!

Well, this is not a boat accident! It wasn't any propeller, it wasn't any coral reef, and it wasn't Jack the Ripper! It was a shark.

[Cheezoholic]

21. It's gonna take blood in the streets come 11/26, I'm telling ya. Start practicing n/t

[Hekate]

22. It. Was. Deliberate.

[Submariner]

24. I'll be long dead by then but I bet

you DU'ers 10-20 years from now may likely see backdoors to the government main frame computers during D.O.G..E used to steal billions and not be traceable.

[UpInArms]

25. This maladminstration is driving me insane

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired

[yellow dahlia]

63. I second that emotion.

[twodogsbarking]

28. I vote that Big Balls becomes No Balls, like a, well, steer. Then no offspring.

[lastlib]

44. I'm well-versed in castrating farm animals.....

Just put Mr. Balls in the chute and give me the dullest, rustiest, tetanus-infected, manure-encrusted razor blade you can find. I'll "steer" him with a smile.

Elon and the Crime Minister too.

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[twodogsbarking]

55. We had a "device" that worked on younger ones. Snip. Ouch.

[lastlib]

60. Yeah, I know what you're talking about....

I don't want to be that kind to these animals--I'll stick with the dull rusty blade.

[jmowreader]

65. I will do nothing of the sort, thank you very much

I've got a pair of tin snips at work I'm on the verge of throwing away because they are so dull they won't cut plastic banding. You can have those.

[dgauss]

30. Who would be in charge of assigning new numbers?

The Trump administration? DOGE?

[cpamomfromtexas]

31. This affects military and even deceased military

[BoRaGard]

32. If repubes aren't being mean a-holes, they are being incompetent

[relayerbob]

33. Blunder?

Possibly. But also possible that they wanted to destroy the Social Security system, claiming no one is who they claim to be, and not issuing valid SS numbers ... and then require the "new" SS numbers to become eligible to vote.

[Autumn]

34. Can we citizens sue the fuckers?

[aggiesal]

35. So that Musk & Palentir can abuse the information. ...

Making
America
Greedy
Again

[TheBlackAdder]

36. I seriously doubt it was a blunder, more like a candy store.

No security, other than basic firewall rules to allow the chosen few access.

[surfered]

38. How much is this DOGE mistake going to cost us?

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[William Seger]

40. LOCK HIM UP!

Surely, he knew it was illegal, but expected to be protected! I do hope we have a new Democratic administration before the statute of limitations runs out.

[Attilatheblond]

45. Blunder? Nah, been waiting for this

Excuse to make everybody jump thru their 'prove who you are and we'll decide if you're a citizen' hoops
In the meantime, will Social Security payments be held up? Dollars to donuts this will bring all sorts of problems.

[drray23]

46. I would not trust the Trump administration to handle generating and assigning new SSN # to everybody.

They would bungle it or worse use that opportunity to deny it to people such as those of us naturalized citizens. They would find excuses to say it needs to be investigated to make sure we are true Americans. Same thing could happen to older African Americans. Many, especially in rural areas cannot easily produce a birth certificate. They were born at home, the birth was not recorded, especially during Jim Crow.

[calimary]

48. There is that.

There MOST DEFINITELY is that.

Dammit.

[marble falls]

49. Isn't that going to be a headache for SS for the 50 years or so. Nice work, eLoon.

[Orrex]

50. Send Elon the bill

[Turbineguy]

52. Not surprised.

Afterall, their task was to fuck things up.

Chalk it up to another cost of electing trump, world history's most expensive President.

[IronLionZion]

53. But Hillary's Emails are the real problem

not this administration's repeated leaking of confidential data to unsecured servers. Maybe they can put it on a Signal chat and copy some journalists to Make America really Great Again.

[jalan48]

56. This should really gum up the works and contribute to, "The system is broken and needs to be over hauled." (eliminated)

[hildegaard28]

58. We're coming

For you, Big Ballz! Republicans won't be in charge forever, and once Democrats get back in power, we will do all in our power to ensure you spend the rest of your pathetic life in a federal penitentiary.

[mucholderthandirt]

59. Well, that's just great. Not surprising, either.

I've had the same SSN since I was fifteen, 51 years now. I had to get it to get dental care at the UNC dental school. Everything I've ever done, including serving four years in the USAF, is tied to that number.

Idiot MAGA fuckups. We'll never get all of their stupid shit straightened out.

[USS_Dauntless]

64. Remember, Trump voters made all of this possible.