A whistleblower from the Labor Department told Congress that they believe that Elon Musk’s juvenile thugs at the DOGE office may have accessed and taken sensitive information on labor unions, lawsuits, and even corporate secrets with them when they accessed the Department of Labor’s entire IT system. The whistleblower said that their actions were less like those of government employees and more akin to criminal hackers trying to take as much data as possible. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses the whistleblower’s accusations.
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
According to a whistleblower with the US Department of Labor, doge and their thugs came into the offices at the US Labor Department and stole sensitive data pertaining to labor unions, ongoing lawsuits and even corporate secrets. And this whistleblower gave all of this information to Congress openly, publicly. The whistleblower is not hiding who they are. It is a, uh, individual by the name of Dan Barus, if I’m pronouncing that correctly. But here’s what Barus had to say. The amount of data that was taken is the equivalent to a section of the New York Public Library, and the amount of people it could impact is in the hundreds of millions. Our information systems appear to have been assaulted and someone with the capacity and mandate to investigate needs to do so. I can’t attest to what their end goal was or what they’re doing with the data, but I can tell you that the bits of the puzzle that I can quantify are scary. This is a very bad picture we are looking at.
So what did they get into? According to the report, the Doge team may have been granted access to sensitive information on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets, all of which labor law experts say should never leave the agency. And the employees working under Elon Musk asked that their activities not be logged on the system and apparently tried to cover their tracks. National Labor Relations Board employees were concerned that confidential data could be exposed, especially after they detected suspicious login attempts from an IP address in Russia. The whistleblower told lawmakers and the IT department began a formal review of what was determined to be a serious ongoing security breach and the potential illegal removal of personally identifiable information. But believe it or not, it somehow gets even worse than that because according to the whistleblower, these Doge thugs installed a root kit to allow themselves to remotely access the back end of the data files without anybody noticing. Let me read you this varus notice suspicious doge activity almost immediately, and so did others, including journalist Roger Sullenberger, who posted on X last month at Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate and Doge Engineered Jordan Wick had been sharing information about coding projects he was working on to a public account on the GitHub website that Barus believes could have been a backdoor to N B’s internal case management system.
He said. So when I saw this tool, I immediately panicked just for lack of a better term, I kind of had a a conniption and said, whoa, whoa, whoa. He immediately notified the rest of his team who shared his concerns about doer’s access to the internal system that host proprietary data from corporate competitors, personal information about union members or employees voting to join a union and witness testimony in ongoing cases, all of which is protected by the Privacy Act and other federal laws. So what can they do with this information? Well, Elon Musk, a known guy who doesn’t seem to like unions, could use it to retaliate against any of his workers who have voted to form a union. He could use it to weed out potential job prospects who may have in the past voted in favor of unions. He may use it to take secrets from other companies and use them for his own companies.
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