Friday, the Chuck Borges, head data of the Social Security Administration, sent a post to the agency staff in which he claimed to have been violently removed from his post this week after filing a whistle -blower complaint in which he accused the agency of the data of sensitive agencies. Minutes after the e -mail went out, it disappeared from employees in the incarcaste, two SSA sources told Wired.

“I regret and involuntarily my position at the Social Security Administration (SSA),” Borges wrote in the letter of resignation to staff obtained by Wired. “This involuntary resignation is the result of SSA’s actions against me, which makes my duties impossible to perform legally and ethically, caused me serious, physical and emotional distress on the standings, and constitutes a constructive dismissal.”

Less than 30 minutes after staff members received the e -mail, it my mysterious way disappeared from employees in the in -inposts, the SSA sources told Wired. It is not clear whether the e -mail was restored after it is not available, and the reason for the disappearance of the email was also not immediately clear. One SSA staff member speculates that it was removed because it was critical to the agency.

“It certainly did not paint CIO leadership in a favorable light,” said one SSA source, referring to the SSA chief information officer.

Under the Federal Records Act of 1950, US agencies are usually required by law to maintain internal records, including e -mails.

Independent journalist Marisa Kabas was the first time to report on Borges’ resignation and the disappearance of his email in posts about Bluesy.

Neither Borges nor SSA responded immediately to requests for comment.

The ‘involuntary resignation’ comes days after Borges filed a formal complaint of the whistle -blower with the US office of special advocates who accused the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) of incorrectly uploading SSA data, which includes very sensitive information about millions of people with social security numbers on an unsecured cloud server. Borges claim that the upload of ‘live’ SSA data to a cloud server outside the agency protocols is illegal and that the data may be at risk of being hacked or leaked.

“I have recently been made aware of various projects and incidents that can make up the violations of federal statutes or regulations, involving the potential safety and security of high -value data assets in the cloud, which could possibly be unauthorized or inappropriate access to agency business storage solutions, and this may involve unauthorized data exchange with other agencies.

In a statement to the New York Times on Tuesday, SSA spokesman Nick Perrine defended the agency’s data security practices, claiming that the references to the data ‘from the Internet were rejected’.

“SSA stores all personal data in secure environments that have strong precautions to protect important information,” Perrine said. “The data referred to is stored in a long-standing environment used by SSA and finished from the Internet. SSA high-level officials have administrative access to this system with supervision by SSA’s information security team.”

The Borges’ whistle -blower complaint included documents showing that the Doge -affiliate John Solly, who worked under the SSA, asked an employee of the Career Agency to copy data from Nommident, a master SSA database, with a lifelong record of all SSN holders, to a ‘virtual private cloud’, Services Server, controlled by SSA. According to the complaint, Edward “Big Balls” Coristine was also involved in the project.

“The disclosures of Mr. Borges involve offenses, including apparent systemic violations of the data security, uninhibited administrative access to highly sensitive production environments, and possible offenses of internal SSA security protocols and federal privacy laws by Doge staff Edward Coristine, Aram Moghaddassi, John Solly, and Michael Russo,” competition. “These actions form violations of laws, rules and regulations, abuse of authority, gross mismanagement and the creation of a material and specific threat to public health and safety.”

Neither Coristine, Moghaddassi, Solly, nor Russo immediately responded to Wired’s request for comment.