The Hill reports that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has come under scrutiny for improperly sharing Social Security data via an unauthorized third-party server, as revealed in a recent Justice Department court filing.

The filing indicates that the DOGE team working within the Social Security Administration (SSA) utilized Cloudflare, a platform not sanctioned for agency data storage, to share sensitive information over a 10-day span in March.

As per the Friday court document, it remains unclear which specific data was shared and whether it is still present on the Cloudflare server. This filing aims to update the court record with these new findings.

The Justice Department highlighted that the SSA’s review last fall identified these activities as possibly breaching agency policies or violating a prior court order.

In March, U.S. District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander prohibited DOGE team members from accessing SSA data, in response to a lawsuit initiated by the AFL-CIO and two other organizations.

In a separate incident, a DOGE employee at the agency copied Steve Davis, a senior adviser to DOGE at the time, and another DOGE employee embedded at the Labor Department on an email that potentially contained personal Social Security data.

“Despite ongoing efforts by SSA’s Chief Information Office, SSA has been unable to access the file to determine exactly what it contained,” the filing notes.

However, the Justice Department said the agency believes it contained personally identifiable information derived from its systems, including the names and addresses of about 1,000 people.

Two DOGE employees at the SSA were also contacted by a political advocacy group that sought to analyze state voter rolls with the goal of finding “evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States,” according to the filing. One DOGE employee ultimately signed a “Voter Data Agreement” with the group.

“At this time, there is no evidence that SSA employees outside of the involved members of the DOGE Team were aware of the communications with the advocacy group,” the filing notes. “Nor were they aware of the ‘Voter Data Agreement.’ This agreement was not reviewed or approved through the agency’s data exchange procedures.”

SSA first learned about the agreement “during a review unrelated to this case” in November and made two Hatch Act referrals in late December. The Hatch Act bars federal employees from engaging in political activity.