DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive

elsewhen 72 points 7 comments March 10, 2026
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gnabgib

Source - WP (56 points, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327367 > If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

adamzwasserman

according to the WaPo, this guy was such a L33T hacker that 'he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer"'. Ooookay

hammock

The submitted title is editorialized. The article headline goes “…, report says” There is a whistleblower report that says one thing and the SSA official that says another thing. Regardless of which you believe, the HN title is questionable.

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