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To: Les H who wrote (47658)	9/13/2025 11:01:06 AM
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Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' Social Security database 'immediately' It’s a Republican pressing after DOGE whistleblower flags hostile work environment Brandon Vigliarolo Thu 11 Sep 2025 / A US Senator is demanding answers after a Social Security Administration (SSA) employee who blew the whistle on DOGE dealings involuntarily resigned last month, citing workplace hostility in response to his concerns. 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 that the presidentially approved cost-cutting unit 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. Numident is used to store records of every person who has ever applied for a Social Security Card in the United States. 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," Crapo added. "Further, given the large amount of sensitive data under SSA's control, I consider the protection and security of PII held by the agency to be a matter of first importance." The SSA didn't directly answer questions about its response to Crapo, instead sending us an identical statement to the one it provided when we covered the original whistleblower complaint last month. theregister.com