"Republican Senator Mike Crapo (it's pronounced Cray-poe), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to the SSA's commissioner, Frank Bisignano, giving him just two weeks to provide answers to concerns raised last month by now-former SSA Chief Data Officer Charles Borges. The former CDO's whistleblower complaint alleged DOGE had duplicated a critical database filled with taxpayer information, known as Numident, to a test cloud environment that wasn't managed by Borges or SSA, and which allegedly is without any oversight controls."
"Crapo's questions are numerous, but one with a much shorter deadline stands out: He wants to know whether that duplicate database "was accessed, leaked, hacked, or disseminated in any unauthorized fashion," and he wants it "immediately upon receipt of this letter." "As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, I must take very seriously every allegation made by a protected whistleblower ... I consider the protection and security of PII held by the agency to be a matter of first importance""
A Social Security Administration Chief Data Officer resigned involuntarily after reporting alleged Department of Government Efficiency duplication of the Numident database to an unmanaged test cloud. The duplicate reportedly contained taxpayer information and lacked oversight controls under SSA or the CDO. Senator Mike Crapo sent a letter to SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano demanding answers within two weeks and an immediate response on whether the duplicate "was accessed, leaked, hacked, or disseminated in any unauthorized fashion." The SSA provided a previously issued, identical statement rather than new answers to the senator's questions.
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