It was a Friday afternoon in February when Daniel Boroulis got a call from his boss, Doge would be arriving soon.

I was working on a spreadsheet for some budgeting stuff, and I got a call from my boss saying, hey, it's possible Doge will show up.

Doge is the new federal cost-cutting unit effectively led by billionaire Trump advisor Elon Musk.

The following week, according to his official disclosure to Congress, Berulus and his

colleagues watched a black SUV with a police escort pull into the parking garage of the

National Labor Relations Board in southeast Washington, D.C. The small, independent federal

agency investigates and adjudicates complaints about unfair labor practices. It stores reams of

potentially sensitive data, such as private legal notes in ongoing labor investigations or

confidential lists of union organizers.

Most of that data lives on the cloud, a virtual computer system that can be accessed remotely.

It is Berulis' job to watch over the cloud to make sure no single user has access to data or systems they don't need.

But for Doge, those policies and guidelines didn't seem to apply, Barula says.

They had a very specific request.

Do not log the accounts. Don't log the access and stay out of our way.

That was just the start for Barula sent his colleagues.

That was a huge red flag.

That's something that you just don't do. It violates every core

concept of security and best practice. After his suspicions were raised, Baroulas, was able to

hunt down a few details about what took place while Doge had access. Baroulas put them all in a

whistleblower disclosure to Congress.

Now, there's a ton of complicated technical detail, but here's what it says.

There is clear evidence Doge got the highest level access to the system that a big chunk of data left the agency's internal case management system,

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