The fallout from DOGE staffers' efforts to access sensitive Social Security data continues as an agency watchdog disclosed a new investigation into "potential misuse" reported by a whistleblower.

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The tension between data hunger and data hazards may be the defining challenge of the modern enterprise. The volume of data collected and stored by enterprises has exploded in the past few years. This ...

The Social Security Administration's chief data officer said the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a Social Security database that included sensitive information to an unsecured cloud ...

Data loss protection company MIND Security Inc. today announced the launch of DLP for Agentic AI, a data-centric approach to artificial intelligence security that helps organizations safely achieve ...

The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON ― Personal information of more than 300 million Americans is at risk of being leaked or hacked after employees of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) put important Social Security data in a “vulnerable cloud environment,” a ...

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