The Chief Data Officer of Social Security has resigned from his position. 

The Hill reports that Charles Borges submitted his resignation letter on Friday.

It would appear that his resignation has something to do with actions taken by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server. pic.twitter.com/NCxl3rJ8N0

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A violation of the law?

Borges' resignation letter has been made public. In it, he explains his decision.

He, in part, writes:

Recently, I have been made aware of several projects and incidents which may constitute violations of federal statutes or regulations, involve the potential safety and security of high value data assets in the cloud, possibly provided unauthorized or inappropriate access to agency enterprise data storage solutions, and may involve unauthorized data exchange with other agencies.

He claimed, "As these events evolved, newly installed leadership in IT and executive offices created a culture of panic and dread, with minimal information sharing, frequent discussions on employee termination, and general organizational dysfunction."

He claimed "executives and employees are afraid to share information or concerns on question activities for fear of retribution or termination, and repeated requests by me for visibility into these events have been rebuffed or ignored..."

Borges concluded by saying that the situation "is more than a reasonable employee could bear."

Further background

CBS News explains some of the background of this situation.

Per the outlet:

Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, resigned Friday — days after filing a whistleblower complaint about Department of Government Efficiency employees at the SSA. He said in the complaint that the DOGE employees had uploaded a copy of the entire country's Social Security information to a "vulnerable cloud environment."

A spokesperson for the Social Security Administration has disputed this.

The spokesperson, according to CBS, said that the data referred to be Borges had been "walled off" from the internet and that the Social Security Administration is "not aware of any compromise to this environment." "The data referenced in the complaint is stored in a long-standing environment used by SSA and walled off from the internet," the spokesperson said.

The question now is who is going to take Borges' place atop the administration. At the time of this writing, there has been no indication as to who might get the nod.