Last month, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was accused of creating a live cloud copy of every U.S. citizens' Social Security information , one without appropriate security oversight or tracking to determine who accessed the data. A concerning new report from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) has now echoed these allegations, finding that DOGE created an environment of "serious cybersecurity vulnerabilities, privacy violations, and risk of corruption."
Led by ranking member Sen. Gary Peters, HSGAC's six-month investigation concluded that DOGE's mishandling of data has put U.S. citizens at high risk from malicious actors, including but not limited to "foreign adversaries" such as China, Russia, and Iran . An internal risk assessment b