The recent controversy surrounding the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its handling of Social Security ...

A whistleblower warns a mishandled cloud copy of Social Security data could put millions at lifelong risk and force SSNs to change.

A startling whistleblower complaint has thrust the security of Americans' most sensitive personal information into the national spotlight. According to a former senior official within the Social ...

The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been starkly unequal across race and ethnicity. We examined the geographic variation in excess all-cause mortality by race and ...

Many readers have been emailing me asking for my help in understanding the allegations made by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency about sloppy recordkeeping at the Social Security ...

Remember when Elon Musk and President Donald Trump were saying that tens of millions of dead people received Social Security benefits? It was pretty clear from the outset that this claim, which ...

A report issued Thursday accuses the Department of Government Efficiency of putting millions of Americans’ personal information in an unsecured cloud server. Released by Senate Homeland Security ...

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. A ...

The Social Security Administration said an internal review found that its database containing the sensitive personal information of all Americans with a Social Security number remains secure and was ...

The sensitive Social Security database was not hacked, leaked or compromised, the Social Security Administration's commissioner said. The Social Security Administration said an internal review found ...

The Trump administration yesterday issued a lengthier denial of a whistleblower’s allegation that DOGE officials at the Social Security Administration (SSA) copied the agency’s database to an insecure ...

Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano has addressed concerns from lawmakers following whistleblower allegations that the federal agency mishandled sensitive personal data. Last week, Senate ...