Federal employee alleges DOGE activity resulted in data breach at labor board

[robosmith]

Federal employee alleges DOGE activity resulted in data breach at labor board

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In a sworn declaration sent to Congress, the employee said he witnessed several anomalies in DOGE’s handling of security.

 

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 stack of encyclopedias” if the data were all text files, he wrote. He wrote that the removal was “extremely unusual because data almost never directly leaves NLRB’s databases.”   

The database accessed by DOGE contained personally identifiable information of “claimants and respondents with pending matters before the agency” as well as confidential business information gathered during investigations, he wrote. 

He added that after DOGE gained access to the labor board’s systems, there was an increase in attempted logins from locations outside the United States including from a user with an internet protocol (IP) address in Russia. He wrote that the person with the Russian IP address appeared to have a correct username and password, created minutes earlier by DOGE engineers, and was blocked from logging in only because of their location. 

“Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming,” Berulis wrote. 

Berulis included in his disclosure several screenshots from a computer workstation that he says are evidence of data being transferred. He wrote that he has almost two decades of experience in his field and that he has held a Top Secret security clearance. 

 

[Deluge]

8 minutes ago, robosmith said:

Federal employee alleges DOGE activity resulted in data breach at labor board

 

Sounds like NLRB needs to be shut down. 

Make it so, Mr. President. 

[Nationalist]

37 minutes ago, robosmith said:

Federal employee alleges DOGE activity resulted in data breach at labor board

 

 

37 minutes ago, robosmith said:

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.

LOL...The Bureaucracy Strikes Back.

Staring Brandon

giggle...

 

Edited April 17 by Nationalist

[robosmith]

12 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

giggle...

The ^CLOWN strikes (out) again.

 

 

 

[Nationalist]

Just now, robosmith said:

The ^CLOWN strikes (out) again.

 

 

 

Has anyone been charged? No

I'm tired of all these childish Libbie tempy tantrums.

Suck it up. DOGE is coming to make bureaucracy efficient and cut off the dumb pork. That is something any rational person should want. It is frankly incredible that you sopping wet noodles would be opposed to such a thing.

Just another example of Libbies being not fit for leadership. All you do is follow whatever crap your told. Regardless of the law, morality, honour or even proof. All fluffy hatred...and no beef.

[robosmith]

13 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

Has anyone been charged? No

I'm tired of all these childish Libbie tempy tantrums.

Suck it up. DOGE is coming to make bureaucracy efficient and cut off the dumb pork. That is something any rational person should want. It is frankly incredible that you sopping wet noodles would be opposed to such a thing.

Just another example of Libbies being not fit for leadership. All you do is follow whatever crap your told. Regardless of the law, morality, honour or even proof. All fluffy hatred...and no beef.

Thanks for corroborating what I said about the IGNORANCE of FOS LIES only viewers. LMAO

[Legato]

26 minutes ago, robosmith said:

Thanks for corroborating what I said about the IGNORANCE of FOS LIES only viewers. LMAO

To know if Fox lies you must be an avid watcher, "paying" out the rope for them to hang themselves, now Fox has all your rope and the boats drifting away.

[robosmith]

43 minutes ago, Legato said:

To know if Fox lies you must be an avid watcher, "paying" out the rope for them to hang themselves, now Fox has all your rope and the boats drifting away.

The ONLY thing I need to know is they were found GUILTY in COURT of SERIOUS $800M worth of LIBEL DAMAGES.

That is HUGE, whether you understand that or not. They are in a class by themselves. Just like Trump's pathological LYING.

[robosmith]

DOGE assigns staffers to work at agency where it allegedly removed sensitive data

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Several companies run by Elon Musk, the billionaire Trump ally and de facto head of DOGE, have cases before the NLRB — as do Musk's competitors. His SpaceX company is also part of a lawsuit seeking to have the courts declare the agency's structure as unconstitutional.

After NPR reported on the whistleblower disclosure, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee called for an investigation into DOGE's access to the NLRB.

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Top House Democrat says DOGE data access at NLRB may be 'technological malfeasance'

U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., expressed concern that DOGE "may be engaged in technological malfeasance and illegal activity," in a letter sent to two independent labor watchdogs.

The letter asks the inspectors general to answer a number of questions regarding ways DOGE may have potentially violated federal law, including any NLRB networks DOGE staffers had access to and what records of DOGE's work within NLRB systems exist.

Berulis' whistleblower's disclosure is the latest in a pattern of legal questions around DOGE's virtually unfettered access to personal and financial data kept in different databases across the federal government, and concerns about what DOGE is doing with that data.

In more than a dozen federal court cases, DOGE and the Trump administration have largely failed to give consistent and clear answers about who has access to the data and how that access complies with privacy and cybersecurity protections in place.

AKA, HUGE conflict of interest that Muskrat has LIED TO the public would not exist. 🤮

[Deluge]

18 hours ago, robosmith said:

The ONLY thing I need to know is they were found GUILTY in COURT

No, the ONLY thing you need to know is if left-wing radicals got away with some bullshit action. 

Yet another reason you a$$holes lost in November.  

[robosmith]

10 hours ago, robosmith said:

DOGE assigns staffers to work at agency where it allegedly removed sensitive data

AKA, HUGE conflict of interest that Muskrat has LIED TO the public would not exist. 🤮

@Nationalist has BUPKIS AGAIN. AKA BANKRUPT.

[Nationalist]

41 minutes ago, robosmith said:

@Nationalist has BUPKIS AGAIN. AKA BANKRUPT.

HE HE HEEE...

Trump's administration is-a-gonna ruin her. And she's not rich enough to withstand the cost.

She'll follow Brandon, Hunter, Fannie...etc...down the drain.

[Legato]

22 hours ago, robosmith said:

The ONLY thing I need to know is they were found GUILTY in COURT of SERIOUS $800M worth of LIBEL DAMAGES.

That is HUGE, whether you understand that or not. They are in a class by themselves. Just like Trump's pathological LYING.

So you don't watch Fox news.

In that case your fructooligosaccharides comments are done with a blind allegiance to the lies of the MSM.

[robosmith]

35 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

HE HE HEEE...

Trump's administration is-a-gonna ruin her. And she's not rich enough to withstand the cost.

She'll follow Brandon, Hunter, Fannie...etc...down the drain.

^CELEBRATING the CORRUPT use of official office for PERSONAL REVENGE.

You are as corrupt as Trump. 🤮

[robosmith]

9 hours ago, Legato said:

So you don't watch Fox news.

I didn't say ^that I said IT'S NOT NECESSARY. Every time I watch FOS LIES, I count at LEAST 1 LIE/minute.

9 hours ago, Legato said:

In that case your fructooligosaccharides comments are done with a blind allegiance to the lies of the MSM.

^Really STUPID that you don't know FOS LIES IS MSM. Certainly NOT NEWS.

I consume a wide variety of news sources, and that is CORROBORATION because all VALID news sources do their OWN CONFIRMATION.

That's why they ALWARYS say when something they're reporting is NOT CONFIRMED by their own investigations. Duh

Edited Saturday at 03:41 AM by robosmith

[gatomontes99]

On 4/18/2025 at 2:21 PM, robosmith said:

I didn't say ^that I said IT'S NOT NECESSARY. Every time I watch FOS LIES, I count at LEAST 1 LIE/minute.

^Really STUPID that you don't know FOS LIES IS MSM. Certainly NOT NEWS.

I consume a wide variety of news sources, and that is CORROBORATION because all VALID news sources do their OWN CONFIRMATION.

That's why they ALWARYS say when something they're reporting is NOT CONFIRMED by their own investigations. Duh

Liberal definition of lie is an opinion or fact that they don't like. Rule #5.

Edited Sunday at 09:01 AM by gatomontes99

[robosmith]

8 hours ago, gatomontes99 said:

Liberal definition of lie is an opinion or fact that they don't like. Rule #5.

Just cause you write a list of "rules" does not make ANY of THEM FACTUAL. Duh