DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says

A whistleblower complaint reported by The Washington Post alleges a former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) software engineer stole two restricted SSA databases (Numident and the Master Death File) containing Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal data for potentially hundreds of millions of U.S. citizens and stored them on a thumb drive; the SSA denies the claim and the inspector general is investigating. The article links this allegation to prior incidents involving DOGE personnel and the SSA, raising concerns about insider access and large-scale exposure of sensitive government-held personal data.