A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American’s Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists.

From its inception, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) operated as a rogue entity within the US government, slashing staff and funding, gaining access to government systems, and overriding agency decisionmaking—all without oversight from officials who have little understanding of its reach and methods.

A new report issued by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) on Thursday adds new insight on how this incursion happened, while raising grave concerns about the possibility of a catastrophic data breach that would affect all Americans and serious questions about who DOGE operatives answer to.

Oversight staff detail how DOGE gained control over federal agencies, focusing their probe on three of DOGE’s primary targets: the General Services Administration (GSA), the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the Social Security Administration (SSA).

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    12 days ago

    The “catastrophic data breach” was Elon gaining access to all those systems. He rigged the last presidential. Now he can do more.

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      12 days ago

      It’s not even that…

      Like, not doubting he was wanting to do that. But those doge/opm people he brought in are ridiculously incompetent.

      His “code experts” don’t even fucking know html.

      They just agree to whatever timeline their boss gives them, and then shit out and unfinished broken product that we spend 6 months trying to make usable.

      Even if they all had nothing but the best of intentions, they were going to fuck shit up and have leaks like this. I swear to God they’re just using chatgpt for all this shit. When you talk to them they have no fucking clue how anything works or what’s even possible. They’re shitting out unfinished projects and then using the complaints to prompt chatgpt to fix it, and then just putting shit live without notifying anyone or any amount of testing.

      Like, official government websites with loads of PII and CUI, just fucking raw dogging the public internet.

      It’s absolutely fucking insane.