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US Government sued after mass emails to federal workforce allegedly sent from insecure server


Musk appointees allegedly plugged their own email server into OPM network, breaking data security rules.

Far from it: A new private class action lawsuit brought by two anonymous US executive branch employees alleges that they simply turned up at the HQ of the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which handles HR, and demanded to plug in their email server and get going as soon as possible. On the other side of this campaign were employees who rarely receive mass emails from the OPM’s HR department in a system that normally channels communications through individual agencies. We think they’re building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road,” said a Reddit post referring to reductions in force (layoffs), according to the lawsuit.

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