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Anthony Kimery
Aug 27, 2025
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a Trump administration initiative initially led by Elon Musk and his allies, is facing mounting scrutiny after two federal whistleblowers alleged it exposed sensitive U.S. government systems to serious security risks. Risks that may be ongoing.
Separate disclosures from an IT official at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) chief data officer describe unauthorized access, shadow databases, and disabled safeguards that could leave millions of Americans vulnerable to identity theft and foreign exploitation.
The two federal whistleblowers have described how DOGE’s operations opened some of the most sensitive systems of the U.S. government to foreign interference, uncontrolled data exfiltration, and the potential compromise of hundreds of millions of Americans’ identities.
Their disclosures, filed separately this spring and summer, portray a pattern that is both disturbing and consistent. Inexperienced DOGE employees who previously worked for Musk companies were given sweeping and unjustified access to federal networks. Shadow systems were created outside traditional oversight. Logs and monitoring tools were disabled or manipulated to conceal activity, and internal warnings were dismissed or suppressed. In both cases, the whistleblowers themselves faced retaliation.
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www.biometricupdate.com
Aug 27, 2025
America’s most sensitive data remains in the hands of shadowy federal employees whose loyalty is political rather than professional
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a Trump administration initiative initially led by Elon Musk and his allies, is facing mounting scrutiny after two federal whistleblowers alleged it exposed sensitive U.S. government systems to serious security risks. Risks that may be ongoing.
Separate disclosures from an IT official at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) chief data officer describe unauthorized access, shadow databases, and disabled safeguards that could leave millions of Americans vulnerable to identity theft and foreign exploitation.
The two federal whistleblowers have described how DOGE’s operations opened some of the most sensitive systems of the U.S. government to foreign interference, uncontrolled data exfiltration, and the potential compromise of hundreds of millions of Americans’ identities.
Their disclosures, filed separately this spring and summer, portray a pattern that is both disturbing and consistent. Inexperienced DOGE employees who previously worked for Musk companies were given sweeping and unjustified access to federal networks. Shadow systems were created outside traditional oversight. Logs and monitoring tools were disabled or manipulated to conceal activity, and internal warnings were dismissed or suppressed. In both cases, the whistleblowers themselves faced retaliation.
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DOGE access to US govt systems sparks fear of massive federal data breaches | Biometric Update
The Department of Government Efficiency is facing scrutiny as federal whistleblowers allege it exposed sensitive government systems to serious security risks.
www.biometricupdate.com
