Daniel Berulis submitted a protected disclosure to Congress after uncovering a potential breach of data by DOGE engineers at the NLRB.
Justin Doubleday@jdoubledayWFED
May 5, 2025 6:38 pm
3 min read
The National Labor Relations Board whistleblower who flagged a possible data breach by DOGE is encouraging federal workers to speak up if they notice something suspicious or untoward.
Daniel Berulis, an IT specialist at the NLRB, submitted a protected whistleblower disclosure to Congress last month.
Berulis documented evidence that Department of Government Efficiency engineers may have compromised sensitive data at the NLRB. He also submitted documentation showing users in Russia were attempting to use newly created DOGE accounts to access NLRB data.
Andrew Bakaj, Berulis’s lawyer, said the matter is now being reviewed.
“We have been in touch with the relevant oversight authorities, and I do understand that there is an investigation, at least one, but I can’t get into the specifics of that,” Bakaj told Federal News Network. “But we’re looking to cooperate with whoever wants to get to the bottom of what may or may not have happened.”
In addition to shining a light on what happened at the NLRB, Berulis wanted to go public with his story to encourage other federal employees to blow the whistle on potential wrongdoing.
In a recent Reddit post, Berulis laid out his reasoning to “remind every public servant that speaking up matters and you’re not alone.”
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