DOGE Staffer Violates Treasury Policy by Sending Unencrypted Personal Data via Email
A DOGE staffer violated Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted personal data, sparking security concerns.
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DOGE Staffer Violates Treasury Policy by Sending Unencrypted Personal Data via Email
Court documents filed Friday in an ongoing lawsuit against the US Treasury Department reveal that a 25-year-old staffer for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) violated Treasury policy by sending a spreadsheet that had personal information to two other members of the Trump administration, reports Bloomberg. Image: Cath Virginia /Getty Images The staffer, a former employee at Elon Musk’s X and SpaceX companies named Marko Elez, had been tasked with combing through the Treasury’s payments system, but resigned in early February over racist social media posts that were linked to him. DOGE has since rehired him to work at the Social Security Administration. 19 state attorneys general sued the Treasury Department in February over DOGE’s access. Since then, the department has claimed that Elez was “mistakenly” given read and write access. DOGE’s access to its systems has been limited by a court order that the government is trying to have modified, Bloomberg writes. According to the T…
