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Saturday, April 19, 2025

Whistleblower org says DOGE may have caused 'significant cyber breach' at US labor watchdog - The Economic Times

A whistleblower alleges Elon Musk's tech team caused a major cybersecurity breach at the NLRB, compromising sensitive labor case files. IT staffer Daniel Berulis claims unauthorized access, data exfiltration, and attempted Russian logins occurred. Efforts to alert authorities were blocked, and Berulis faced intimidation. Musk’s team has not commented.

A whistleblower complaint says that billionaire Elon Musk's team of technologists may have been responsible for a "significant cybersecurity breach," likely of sensitive case files, at America's federal labor watchdog.

The complaint, addressed to Republican Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton and his Democratic counterpart Mark Warner and made public Tuesday by the group Whistleblower Aid, draws on the testimony of Daniel Berulis, an information technology staffer at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The NLRB, a New Deal-era agency that is tasked with protecting workers' rights to organize and join unions, has for years been a target of America's corporate titans - including Musk - some of whom are now seeking to have the agency's powers declared unconstitutional.

In an affidavit, Berulis said he had evidence that DOGE staffers were given extraordinarily sweeping access to the NLRB's systems, which house sensitive case files. He said that beginning in early March, logging protocols created to audit users appeared to have been tampered with, and that he had detected the removal of about 10 gigabytes...



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