A whistleblower accuses Elon Musk and DOGE of being at the origin of a major security breach

According to a complaint filed by the organization Whistleblower Aid, Daniel Berulis, a former computer specialist at the US government agency National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), recently raised the alarm about a potential serious security breach involving the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk and his team.

EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. “None of that … information should ever leave the agency,” said a former NLRB official.

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Berulis claims that he observed disturbing things in March 2025, when members of the DOGE team obtained extended access to the NLRB’s internal systems, allowing them to view, copy, and modify sensitive data.

According to the whistleblower, the data in question included files related to ongoing union cases, confidential testimonies, personal information about employees, and sensitive information about business owners.

According to the computer specialist, he immediately observed unusual activity on the NLRB’s computer network, including a significant increase in outgoing data volume, estimated by him to be around 10 gigabytes.

At the same time, Berulis also noticed that the logging protocols, essential for monitoring user activity, had been modified. According to him, these alterations significantly complicated the traceability of operations performed on the system.

The computer specialist reports that shortly after the DOGE team accessed the systems, suspicious login attempts from a Russian IP address were observed.

One of them used a recently created account by the DOGE, with a correct username and password, which suggests potential compromise. Although these connections were blocked thanks to the geographical restrictions in place, they greatly concerned the whistleblower.

The whistleblower stated in an interview with CNN that he had received a threatening note accompanied by drone photos showing him at home, shortly after trying to alert the authorities.

He adds that his superiors ordered him to abandon his investigation and not transmit his concerns to national security agencies, while the NLRB rejects all of his accusations.

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