Whistleblower Says DOGE May Have Caused 'significant Cyber Breach' at Labor Watchdog

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Whistleblower says DOGE may have caused 'significant cyber breach' at labor watchdog
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"That kind of spike is extremely unusual because data almost never directly leaves NLRB's databases."
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In an affidavit, [Daniel Berulis] said he had evidence that DOGE staffers were given extraordinarily sweeping access to the NLRB’s systems, including to 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 worth of data from NLRB’s network sometime thereafter.

In an affidavit, Berulis said he had evidence that DOGE staffers were given extraordinarily sweeping access to the NLRB’s systems, including to 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 worth of data from NLRB’s network sometime thereafter.

“That kind of spike is extremely unusual because data almost never directly leaves NLRB’s databases,” Berulis said in his affidavit.

“That kind of spike is extremely unusual because data almost never directly leaves NLRB’s databases,” Berulis said in his affidavit.

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