Laura Vozzella reports: A “sophisticated cyberattack” struck the offices of Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares on Wednesday, forcing the agency to shut down computer systems and resort to paper court filings as Virginia State Police and the FBI investigate. “Unfortunately our agency has been the victim of what appears to be a sophisticated cyberattack,”…
Category: Government Sector
Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
Jennifer Bendery reports: Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s programmers got this information and what they are doing with it. DOGE, which President Donald Trump created to…
Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’
The insider threat on steroids? Brian Krebs reports: Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today’s story explores, the…
Attorney General James Releases Statement on DOGE Access to Sensitive Personal Information
When DataBreaches said, “Send in the lawyers” to sue Musk, she was thinking of personal injury lawyers who handle data breach litigation. But 14 state attorneys general may be even better. From NYS Attorney General Letitia James: NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today led a coalition of 14 attorneys general in…
Treasury agrees to block additional DOGE staff from accessing sensitive payment systems
Suzanne Smalley reports: The Treasury Department has agreed to temporarily block all but two members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team from accessing sensitive payment records and to limit their access to “read-only,” according to a Wednesday court filing. The DOGE workers allowed to continue accessing Treasury’s payment systems are Tom…
Maybe we should all file breach reports against Musk like Kevin did. (1)
The Washington Post reports: Agents of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have gained access to highly restricted government records on millions of federal employees — including Treasury and State Department officials in sensitive security positions — as part of a broader effort to wrest control over the government’s main personnel agency, according to…