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DOGE staffer violated Treasury rules by emailing unencrypted personal data
Marko Elez emailed a spreadsheet containing personal information to two Trump administration officials.
Details of the security lapse emerged in a court filing on Friday containing testimony by David Ambrose, the chief security and privacy officer at the Treasury’s Bureau of Fiscal Services, the division of the Treasury that disburses some trillions of dollars in federal funds to American households every year. A coalition of U.S. attorneys general brought the lawsuit in an effort to block the Trump administration’s team of DOGE cost-cutters from accessing highly sensitive personal and financial data on millions of Americans held by the Treasury unit where Elez was posted. He now works at the Social Security Administration, a person familiar with personnel matters told TechCrunch.
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