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As students returned to school this week, WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of a violent online group known as “Purgatory” about a rash of swattings at universities across the US in recent days.

The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) chief data officer, Charles Borges, has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded a ...

Chief Data Officer Charles Borges raised concerns that DOGE staffers bypassed safeguards, circumvented a court order and created a copy of the Social Security Administration’s entire collection of ...

Members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency exposed Social Security data of more than 300 million Americans, putting personal information at risk of being leaked or hacked into, ...

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...

Social Security Chief Data Officer Charles Borges submitted a Friday resignation letter days after citing policy violations in a whistleblower report documenting the Department of Government ...

Last week, while many of us were enjoying the last days of summer, a whistleblower disclosed shocking details indicating staffers with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency have been ...

WASHINGTON ― Personal information of more than 300 million Americans is at risk of being leaked or hacked after employees of the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a sensitive Social ...

National Public Data — the online background check and fraud prevention service targeted by hackers in what became one of the biggest social security breaches ever — is back. It may still pose a ...

On July 16, 2025, AEI hosted an expert panel discussing the critical issues surrounding federal data consolidation and the protection of civil liberties in the digital age. Below is an edited and ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veeam ® Software, the #1 global leader by market share in Data Resilience, today announced the availability of its first fully pre-built, pre-hardened software appliance: the ...