Akash Bobba
Identified early in media reports as one of six engineers picked on Elon Musk’s team, Akash Bobba was a prolific wrecker from the start, including an unusual detailing document where we as assigned to OPM, Education and Social Security simultaneously. Initially, he served as a volunteer, but he been on the payroll at the Social Security Administration since early February.
Positions
Position | Notes |
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1/20- |
[as OPM-03] appointed Expert, Office of the Director (NTE 2025-07-18, ED-00, excepted, volunteer) docs: directory, onboard |
2/03- |
[as ED-01] detail (NTE 2026-02-12) docs: MOU |
2/03- |
[as OPM-03] detail docs: MOU |
2/09- |
[as SSA-01] appointed Expert, Office of the Chief Information Officer (NTE 2026-02-08, ED-00, $90,025) docs: onboard |
Systems
System | Details |
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website
1/20-
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Agency Website
unknown access [listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12] This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using (OPM) court doc |
USA Perf
1/20-
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USA Performance
unknown access [system name is listed as “USA Performance - U.S. Office of Personnel Management”] System tracking job performance of federal employees (OPM) |
website
1/28-
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Agency Website
unknown access [listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12] This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using (OPM) court doc |
NUMIDENT
2/10-
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NUMIDENT files
read access granted by CIO Mike Russo NUMIDENT files that have been extracted from SSA systems, these contain SSNs for everybody (SSA) court doc |
Events
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1/20
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1/28
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2/03
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Onboard:
Mike Russo officially joins the agency as its new CIO, requests Akash Bobba to join the agency (but he has issues with his background check)
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2/08
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Access:
NBC News reports that Akash Bobba and Ethan Shaotran have admin access to email and had also accessed the backend admin for the Department of Education website.
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2/10
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Disruption:
Mike Russo, DOGE chief of staff Steve Davis both demand that Akash Bobba be onboarded before midnight.
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2/12
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Directory:
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time in their list of officials to FOIA communications for
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2/15
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Disruption:
Frustrated with the questions and concerns about technical issues with the sandbox NUMIDENT data, Mike Russo goes to complain to the chief CIO in the office of the OMB
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2/15
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3/12
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3/13
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Directory:
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
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3/27
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Access:
In a sworn declaration, Leland Dudek justifies access to PII in SSA records for Employee 1, Employee 5, Employee 8 and Employee 9 on the DOGE team. This access is through the SSA's Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system. He claims DOGE staff are being granted only the minimum levels of schema access required.
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4/08
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