The Social Security Administration said the Department of Government Efficiency used Cloudflare, an internet services provider, to share SSA data last year.
Occasional lake effect snow west and southwest of Monroe County at times. A few inches of new snow possible in these areas.The Social Security Administration said in a court filing that the Department of Government Efficiency used Cloudflare, an internet services provider, to share SSA data last year.
The Department of Government Efficiency shared Social Security data through an unsecured web server last year, the benefits agency has disclosed. The Social Security Administration said in a Friday court filing that DOGE employees used Cloudflare, an internet services provider, to share SSA information in March. Cloudflare is not approved for storing the agency’s data, and using it like DOGE did is a violation of security protocols, SSA said. Social Security officials have been unable to determine exactly what information DOGE shared through Cloudflare and whether it still exists on the server. The National News Desk has been unable to request comment from DOGE's current or former employees. Representative John Larson, the highest-ranking Democrat of the House’s Social Security subcommittee, said in a joint statement with Representative Richard Neal that the agency’s disclosure is “alarming.” Neal is the top Democrat on the Ways and Means committee, which oversees the Social Security panel. “We have been warning about privacy violations at Social Security and calling out Elon Musk’s ‘DOGE’ for months,” the lawmakers said. “The ‘DOGE’ appointees engaged in this scheme – who were never brought before Congress for approval or even publicly identified – must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for these abhorrent violations of the public trust,” the Democrats added. DOGE’s Social Security team also entered an unapproved agreement in March with an activist group that tries to overturn elections, SSA said. The organization, which isn’t named in the court filing, askedto analyze state voter rolls it acquired, and the DOGE employees then signed a “Voter Data Agreement” that they returned to the activists. The details of the agreement are unclear, but it wasn’t reviewed or approved through SSA’s data exchange procedures. Additionally, DOGE’s Social Security staffers sent the personally identifiable information of around 1,000 people to Steve Davis, the operational head of the cost-cutting unit. SSA couldn’t determine whether Davis accessed the data, though. "‘DOGE’ signed an agreement to share Social Security data with an organization trying to undermine state election results, sent 1,000 Americans’ personal records directly to one of Elon Musk’s top consiglieres, and shared the confidential data of Americans on a private server,” Larson and Neal said. “The time for talk is over. Chairman Smith and every Republican on the Ways and Means Committee must break their silence on what could very well be the largest data breach in our nation’s history and as we have now learned, may have implications for election security,” the lawmakers added. The National News Desk requested comment from the committee’s Republican leadership but hasn’t received a response. The GOP members have generally supportedPerinton, N.Y. — The Monroe County Sheriff's Office is looking for the driver of a vehicle that crashed into a restaurant, causing extensive damage.Nearly one year later, police have made an arrest in a shooting that seriously injured a woman on the city's west side.Pegula feels Bills hit 'proverbial wall' after latest playoff loss Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula felt his team hit what he called “the proverbial wall” in leading to his decision to abruptly fire coach Sean McDermott.
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