Wednesday, April 02, 2025

DOGE Accesses Federal Payroll System

Report: IT officials who fought DOGE access put on leave and under investigation.

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New info on top officials who were put on leave after refusing DOGE access to DOI payroll systems. DOGE wanted unprecedented, expansive access to multiple systems. How expansive? Enough to let operatives, for example, stop Supreme Court justices' paychecks. www.wired.com/story/doge-a ...

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-- Katie Drummond (@katie-drummond.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM

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... Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gained access "to a payroll system that processes salaries for about 276,000 federal employees across dozens of agencies," despite "objections from senior IT staff who feared it could compromise highly sensitive government personnel information" and lead to cyberattacks, The New York Times reported today.

The system at the Interior Department gives DOGE "visibility into sensitive employee information, such as Social Security numbers, and the ability to more easily hire and fire workers," the NYT wrote, citing people familiar with the matter. DOGE workers had been trying to get access to the Federal Personnel and Payroll System for about two weeks and succeeded over the weekend, the report said.

"The dispute came to a head on Saturday, as the DOGE workers obtained the access and then placed two of the IT officials who had resisted them on administrative leave and under investigation, the people said," according to the NYT report. The agency's CIO and CISO are reportedly under investigation for their "workplace behavior." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-02 01:32 AM

A question I have asked before, one that has not yet been answered ...

Is Mr Musk gathering all this personal information? And if so, for what purpose?

To sell to advertisers for a profit?

Or maybe even to threaten blackmail at some future date to make someone keep "in line" with the governing party?


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-02 01:36 AM

blackmail is my guess.

#3 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-04-02 01:37 AM

This is to burn all the spies.

There is no other reason.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-02 02:34 AM

That's Congressional oversight!

#5 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-04-03 08:47 PM

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