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WASHINGTON — <\/span>The Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog is investigating a whistleblower complaint into what it describes as a former Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> worker’s potential misuse of data obtained from the Social Security Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to a document the Associated Press obtained Wednesday, the SSA\u2019s inspector general informed the leadership of four congressional committees that it was launching the probe after receiving an anonymous complaint.<\/p>\n The Washington Post on Tuesday reported that a former DOGE software engineer had allegedly told several co-workers that he possessed two tightly restricted databases of U.S. citizens\u2019 information and had at least one data set on a thumb drive that he would share with his new employer.<\/p>\n The SSA said the allegations have been refuted by the agency, the former employee, and the company.<\/p>\n Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said in a statement that the allegations, if true, would represent \u201cone of the largest known data breaches in American history” and called for a \u201cfull public accounting.\u201d<\/p>\n The Social Security Administration maintains records on hundreds of millions of people \u2014 including health diagnoses, income, banking information, familial relationships and personal biographic data. <\/p>\n The agency has faced lawsuits over alleged mishandling of government data and DOGE’s access to sensitive personal information. <\/p>\n Last August, whistleblower Charles Borges, who worked as the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration filed a disclosure<\/a> to the special counsel’s office, stating that more than 300 million Americans\u2019 Social Security data was put at risk after DOGE officials uploaded sensitive information to a cloud account not subject to oversight. <\/p>\n