Someone using a Russian IP address attempted to access the internal systems of the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) using legitimate accounts set up by staff from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a whistleblower inside the agency has alleged.
The allegations are part of an extraordinary affidavit submitted to Republican Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton and his Democratic counterpart, Mark Warner, by NLRB IT engineer Daniel Berulis, through his lawyer.
DOGE entered the Washington D.C. offices of the NLRB in early March, as it did with other high-profile agencies including the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Treasury Department.
This sweeping access was granted by an Executive Order signed on the day of President Trump’s inauguration on January 20. Since then, there has been speculation that the often chaotic and unsupervised access by DOGE risked creating the conditions for a data breach at some point.
Now, according to the affidavit, something along these lines has already occurred at the NLRB, leading to a “significant data breach” that has potentially exposed the agency and its data to foreign adversaries.
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