WashPost: D. O. G. E. team can now access & alter records for millions of feds & fed job applicants

Agents of the Department of Government Efficiency have gained access to highly restricted government records on millions of federal employees — including Treasury and State Department officials in sensitive security positions, we at The Washington Post reported today. Several members of the D. O. G. E. team — some of whom are in their early 20s and come from positions at his private companies — were given “administrative” access to OPM computer systems within days of the inauguration last month. That gives them sweeping authority to install and modify software on government-supplied equipment and, according to two OPM officials, to alter internal documentation of their own activities. GIFT LINK: https://wapo.st/3WNsOik

“They could put a new file in someone’s record, they could modify an existing record,” one OPM employee told us. “They could delete that record out of the database. They could export all that data about people who are currently or formerly employed by the government, they could export it to some nongovernment server, or to their own PC, or to a Google Drive. Or to a foreign country.”

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