Whistleblower Says DOGE Stole Government Data – and Handed It to Russia?
When the DOGE team moved in, a massive "exfiltration" of data flowed out of the National Labor Relations Board. Where did it go?
The spike.
A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) says that DOGE team members appear to have stolen reams of data from the agency; someone with an IP (Internet protocol) address in Russia simultaneously tried to gain access to the NLRB; and whistleblower, Daniel Berulis, has received threats tacked to his front door.
Mr. Berulis says he’s also heard rumblings from IT employees at other agencies with similar worries that DOGE is secretly exfiltrating sensitive data. And found that another DOGE coder is busy with a product that creates a secret back door into data structures.
NPR (National Public Radio) broke the story which has been picked up by other news reporting sources but is curiously absent so far from the major newspapers.
The NLRB receives complaints from workers of illegal employer treatment, holds sensitive information on unions, Social Security numbers, home addresses, proprietary corporate data, documentation of ongoing legal cases that contain corporate secrets — Musk's SpaceX among them. Data that…
”four labor law experts tell NPR should almost never leave the NLRB and that has nothing to do with making the government more efficient or cutting spending.”
ENTER DOGE
A DOGE team arrived at the NLRB in the first days of March and demanded the highest access level, which gave them unencumbered permission to read, copy, and alter data. In addition, the DOGE team curiously asked …