The worst came in 2014, when China is believed to have obtained the background investigations of more than 20 million people seeking security ... White House requests for certain types of data ...

The White House replaced ... who want access to the anonymized data must first undergo the typical training and background checks required of other Social Security Administration staffers, she ...

Elon Musk is now considered a “special government employee” by the White House ... he has appropriate security clearance to access the nation’s most sensitive data—is still unclear ...

A federal judge on Thursday imposed new restrictions on billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, limiting its access to Social Security systems that hold personal data on ...

The officials pushed back, saying that they had not completed background investigations into the new hires. The Social Security ... the White House could gain access to the data.

Tiffany Flick, a former Social Security official, detailed what she sees as a “significant” risk of sensitive government data heading into ... SSA days later by the White House, bypassing ...

The Trump administration resisted a judge’s request for the acting head of the Social Security Administration (SSA) to testify at a hearing Tuesday, as the court considers the White House’s ...