On April 20, 2025, federal information technology staffer Dan Berulis discovered his car’s brake line had been cut a day after tech mogul and Trump adviser Elon Musk posted on X that Berulis had committed a crime by filing a whistleblower report alleging members of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency had caused a "significant cybersecurity breach."
- The claim that federal IT staffer Dan Berulis discovered his car brake lines had been cut soon after he filed a whistleblower report alleging activity by members of the Department of Government Efficiency resulted in a "significant cybersecurity breach" is true. In his April 2025 whistleblower report, Berulis noted login attempts from Russia within minutes DOGE engineers creating the accounts.
- On April 19, 2025, tech mogul Elon Musk, who spearheaded DOGE, reposted a post that read, "NLRB whistleblower caught lying about DOGE data breach." Musk captioned it, "Filing a deliberately false whistleblower claim is a serious crime." Dozens of commenters on both posts appeared to believe Berulis had fabricated his account.
- After Berulis lost control of his car on April 20, the police officer who arrived on the scene noted a cut brake line, according to the official police report.
- The identity and motivation of the person who cut Berulis' brake line remains undetermined, as of this writing, and police closed the investigation after being unable to identify a suspect. There is no evidence connecting Musk to the incident.
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