A former employee of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency reportedly stole Americans' personal data from the U.S. Social Security Administration and stored it on a thumb drive, according to a whistleblower complaint reported by The Washington Post. The former DOGE software engineer told co-workers at his new job that he 'possessed two tightly restricted databases of U.S. citizens' information' and was planning to use the information at his new company, according to the report, which added that the Social Security Administration's inspector general is investigating the whistleblower complaint. The former DOGE employee, whom The Washington Post did not name, worked at the Social Security Administration last year. In October he then left to work at a government contractor, where he told colleagues that he had obtained two databases, called 'Numident' and the 'Master Death File,' according to The Post, which reported that the databases could include records for 'more than 500...
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