Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, a DOGE Member and Rye Country Day ‘24 graduate has been implicated in putting a social security database at risk. Coristine left DOGE earlier in the summer to become a special government employee with the Social Security Administration.
Whistleblower Charles Borges, the chief data officer (CDO) at the Social Security Administration (SSA), disclosed reports that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials employed by SSA have created a live copy of the country’s Social Security information in a cloud environment that circumvents oversight. Coristine is one of the individuals allegedly at the center of this activity. The development was released in a letter to government officials from the Government Accountability Project, an international whistleblower protection organization, on Tuesday, and reported in the New York Times on Wednesday.
One of the documents released as part of the whistleblower charges is an August 11th email from Chief Data Officer Borges to Coristine and two others in regards “concerns raised with the security or safety of SSA datasets in the cloud” and other security processes [see email below].
The whistleblower letter warns about potential risks: “If this information were to be compromised, it is possible that the sensitive PII on every American including health diagnoses, income levels and banking information, family relationships, and personal biographic data could be exposed publicly, and shared widely. Bad actors could use this information to engage in identity theft and to target people based on their unique vulnerabilities. Critical benefits for seniors who have long paid into the Social Security system could be at risk, particularly if the SSA needed to re-issue Social Security Numbers to all Americans in the event of a data breach. Reporting suggests that DOGE could be seeking this data to train and enhance AI models.”
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Earlier this month Coristine commanded the attention of US President Donald Trump and the world’s wealthiest man Elon Musk after he was assaulted in Washington, DC.
