A federal cybersecurity specialist has alleged in a whistleblower statement made public Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) caused a security breach at the National Labor Relations Board and may have illegally removed sensitive data from the board.
The specialist, Daniel Berulis, made the allegations in a sworn declaration submitted to members of Congress and to a federal whistleblower office, asking them to investigate what he called a cybersecurity breach. His lawyer said that Berulis had also been targeted with a threatening note and photographs showing him near where he lives. The declaration was first reported by NPR, and NBC News has not independently verified the allegations.
The whistleblower report, which NBC News has reviewed a copy of, comes as DOGE and Trump’s billionaire adviser Elon Musk continue to face multiple lawsuits questioning their access to computer systems across the federal government.
Berulis, who works at the labor board, wrote in the declaration that within days of DOGE staffers arriving in March, he noticed a series of “anomalous” events in the board’s computer systems. Those included changes to the use of multi-factor authentication, which is a widely used security protocol, and internal alerting systems being switched off, he wrote in the 14-page statement.
He also wrote that he tracked what appeared to be the outbound transfer of around 10 gigabytes or more of data — “the equivalent of a full...
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