EXCLUSIVE BREAKING: Elon's DOGE Blamed for Russian Security Breach
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Today's story brings together Elon Musk, a federal agency, a labor agency, and a whistleblower who says something went very wrong inside the U.S. government's computer systems. But at the center of it is DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency, a group created under an executive order during the Trump administration and staffed in part by people with very close ties to Elon Musk's companies.

Now, according to a sworn affidavit, Doge may have triggered a serious cybersecurity breach inside the National Labor Relations Board. And that breach could have exposed sensitive labor data to foreign actors, including Russia.

Now, Daniel Barulis is an IT specialist at the NLRB. That's the independent federal agency responsible for investigating labor disputes and protecting workers' rights. It's not a high-profile agency, but the data it holds is deeply sensitive. Legal affidavits, union strategies, internal business complaints, and confidential company information.

Barula says that after Doge operatives were embedded at the agency, they were given broad access to internal systems. He says they insisted that their activity may not be tracked or logged, something that raised immediate red flags with the agency. And not long after that, he noticed something unusual. There were massive spikes in outgoing data from the agency's servers, traffic that didn't follow any normal pattern. He says the timing lined up exactly with Doge's access.

Then came the moment that pushed this from strange to serious, a login attempt from a Russian IP address. The login used credentials linked to one of the new Doge accounts that had been created at the NLRB. Berulis doesn't know whether that login was successful, but the fact that those credentials had already been used to try to access the agency from Russia deeply concerned them.

Berulis began quietly gathering evidence. Internal logs, traffic records, access history. He eventually decided to come forward, but just as he prepared to disclose what he found to Congress, he says he was threatened. He told his lawyer, and later federal officials, that someone physically taped the note to his front door. That note came with printed photographs of him walking near his home.

He believes they were taken by a drone. The note, he says, referenced his impending disclosure, though he hasn't made it public. Now,

He's now being represented by Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit legal group that sent his sworn disclosure to the Senate Intelligence Committee. The letter asked for an investigation by federal cybersecurity agencies like the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA. Now, the NLRB has publicly denied that Doge ever had access to his systems. That's a spokesperson said that there was no breach and that their internal review found nothing.

But the White House told a different story. Now, this is from the Daily Beast. They confirmed Doge had access to NLRB. They described it as part of a coordinated months-old effort to reduce waste in federal...

uh, fraud in the government. They didn't address the Russian login or the data spikes though. This all comes during a legal fight between the NLRB and Musk's own company, SpaceX. The agency accused SpaceX of firing employees who criticized Musk. And in response, SpaceX is challenging the constitutionality of the agency itself. Now that case is still playing out in court. And if the court sides with Musk,

It could gut the NLRB's ability to enforce labor laws across the country. Now, it raises a question, though. If Doge, which is a Musk-connected team, was inside the NLRB during an active case involving Musk's company, what were they doing there? Were they collecting data? Did they access case files? And did any of that data make its way into the wrong hands?

Berulis isn't making assumptions about motives. He's sticking to what he saw. Unauthorized access, unexplained data transfers, and a Russian login attempt that used newly issued credentials. And now he's asking Congress to step in.

Now, no investigation has been publicly announced yet. But if the facts hold up, this won't just be another whistleblower or a bureaucratic dispute. It'll be about who has access to federal systems and how easily that access can be misused and sent to Russia.

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