SSA whistleblower Charles Borges forced to resign after exposing data breach

| Importance: 9/10 | Status: confirmed

Charles Borges, SSA’s Chief Data Officer, submitted an “involuntary resignation” citing retaliation after his whistleblower complaint about DOGE’s mishandling of 300 million Americans’ Social Security data became public. Borges reported experiencing “exclusion, isolation, internal strife, and a culture of fear” creating intolerable work conditions. His resignation email was deleted from staff inboxes within 30 minutes, and SSA employees reported extremely low morale after “losing a ton of people” since DOGE’s installation.

Key Actors

Charles Borges Social Security Administration DOGE Aram Moghaddassi

Tags

whistleblower-retaliation data-breach social-security institutional-capture personnel-purge

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