The private information of hundreds of millions of Americans is at risk after the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a copy of a vast Social Security database to a cloud server in June, according to a whistleblower complaint from the chief data officer for the Social Security Administration.

Millions of Social Security recipients’ personal information is at risk after federal efficiency officials created an unsecured copy of the nation’s Social Security database in a cloud environment, a...

The complaint also noted that the copied data had far fewer security guidelines in place to safeguard it than the SSA's standard policies typically require.