# A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/a-whistleblowers-disclosure-details-how-doge-may-have-taken-sensitive-labor-data/26739 **Category:** News **Tags:** article **Created:** 2025-04-15T19:18:21Z **Posts:** 15 ## Post 1 by @anon80779245 — 2025-04-15T19:18:21Z [https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security](https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security) > Meanwhile, according to the disclosure and records of internal communications, members of the **DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access** — evasive behavior that several cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR compared to what criminal or state-sponsored hackers might do. --- ## Post 2 by @win11.shading291 — 2025-04-17T03:52:50Z And also links to Russia: > The employees grew concerned that the NLRB’s confidential data could be exposed, particularly after they started detecting suspicious log-in attempts from an IP address in Russia, according to the disclosure. Eventually, the disclosure continued, the IT department launched a formal review of what it deemed a serious, ongoing security breach or potentially illegal removal of personally identifiable information. So wait, the IP address from Russia logged in with correct username and password? Isn’t that insane? And they disabled 2FA. Lmao wtf. > Someone had disabled controls that would prevent insecure or unauthorized mobile devices from logging on to the system without the proper security settings. There was an interface exposed to the public internet, potentially allowing malicious actors access to the NLRB’s systems. Internal alerting and monitoring systems were found to be manually turned off. Multifactor authentication was disabled. And Berulis noticed that an unknown user had exported a “user roster,” a file with contact information for outside lawyers who have worked with the NLRB. --- ## Post 3 by @overdrawn98901 — 2025-04-17T12:49:36Z This entire thing screams malicious actors. --- ## Post 5 by @KevPham — 2025-04-17T15:07:48Z My philosophy with news here on Privacy Guides is that both sides are just as privacy friendly and unfriendly as the other. As much as you may disagree with the political leanings with a post, you are more than welcome to post any articles here as long as it is on-topic. Now for everyone, let’s keep discussion on-topic and not turn this into political discussion. Thank you --- ## Post 6 by @Eebzter — 2025-04-17T15:08:56Z I agree 100% this is newsworthy regardless of coverage (including lack of from some). --- ## Post 7 by @KevPham — 2025-04-17T15:19:16Z Indeed. If Tulsi Gabbard for some reason hurls Section 702 into a trash can, I would love to hear about it. Will it happen? Probably not. But I would be happy to see it on my RSS feed and post it here. So far, everything that is happening at Doge is sloppy at best. Outright dangerous at most. Nothing wrong with reading news about it regardless of your political beliefs. --- ## Post 8 by @anon80779245 — 2025-04-18T16:04:53Z Did you create an account just to say this? This is some serious journalism and accusing the messenger instead of focusing on the content is a classical playbook in politics. --- ## Post 9 by @Neo1 — 2025-04-21T12:56:52Z > [@KevPham](#): > > My philosophy with news here on Privacy Guides is that both sides are just as privacy friendly and unfriendly as the other. As much as you may disagree with the political leanings with a post, you are more than welcome to post any articles here as long as it is on-topic. > > Now for everyone, let’s keep discussion on-topic and not turn this into political discussion. Thank you Turns out this article from NPR was propaganda. [https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/re-a-whistleblower-s-disclosure-details-how-doge-may-have-taken-sensitive-labor-data/26869](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/re-a-whistleblower-s-disclosure-details-how-doge-may-have-taken-sensitive-labor-data/26869) --- ## Post 10 by @TinFoilHat — 2025-04-21T13:14:22Z I dont quite understand the reason you open a new thread for the same topic and link it back here. Btw, I would wait until there are more media coverage to confirm this “update”. --- ## Post 11 by @overdrawn98901 — 2025-04-21T13:34:29Z > [@Neo1](#): > > Turns out this article from NPR was propaganda. At this point, can you just link the refutation source as is and leave the angry political tone at the door? No one here is upset, we the community just don’t like reading angry vindictive things, we get enough of that on every other platform. --- ## Post 13 by @anon80779245 — 2025-04-21T14:44:25Z We are trying to keep a civil website and don’t like unfounded accusations. If you make bold accusations, this should be backed up with serious and verifiable proofs. --- ## Post 14 by @happolati — 2025-04-21T15:25:45Z > [@Neo1](#): > > Turns out this article from NPR was propaganda. Your source is Amuse, which appears to be some random guy on twitter? Surely I’m missing something? --- ## Post 15 by @overdrawn98901 — 2025-04-21T17:17:14Z The censoring isn’t even being done just by mods. The community is reporting you, then mods are taking action. I implore you to just post the source of your counter argument and leave the name calling out of it. Being mean to others and name calling is just rude. There is no reason to be hateful here. I’ve reported your post for the following community guideline violation: > 1. Always attack the argument, never the person. If you have further complaints, please directly message the staff than de-rail discussion. I’ll ask Mods to clean up this thread so it can be a fruitful discussion.