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   DOGE might have misused Social Security data, Trump administration admits   
      
   Date:   
   Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:05:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Employees might have shared SSNs to help an advocacy group try to overturn   
   election results in certain States.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   The US Department of Justice has confirmed in a court filing that members of   
   Elon Musks "DOGE" were secretly in contact with an advocacy group seeking to   
   overturn election results in certain states - and one such member went as far   
   as to sign an agreement which may have involved using Social Security data to   
   match state voter rolls.    
      
   The DOGE employees in question have been referred for potential violations of   
   the Hatch Act, which prohibits government officials from using their    
   positions for political purposes.    
      
   It is said the political advocacy group, which is not named in the court   
   documents, approached the DOGE team at the Social Security Administration   
   (SSA), and requested to analyze state voter rolls with a goal to finding   
   evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States, a   
   Justice Department official confirmed.   
      
   Unapproved third party servers    
      
   The data accessed by DOGE staff might have been private information, which    
   was ruled to be off-limits by a court, and was potentially shared through   
   unapproved third party servers - Cloudflare.    
      
   "SSA believed those statements to be accurate at the time they were made, and   
   they are largely still accurate," the Justice Department official wrote,   
   adding "At this time, there is no evidence that SSA employees outside of the   
   involved members of the DOGE Team were aware of the communications with the   
   advocacy group. Nor were they aware of the Voter Data Agreement."    
      
   It was also revealed a senior adviser to Musk and the DOGE team, Steve Davis,   
   was "copied on a March 3, 2025 email that included a password-protected file   
   containing private information of about 1,000 people contained in Social   
   Security systems," Politico reports.    
      
   It is as yet unknown whether the private information was accessed, or whether   
   this was utilized by the department.    
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/doge-might-have-misused-social-security   
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