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Jenna McLaughlin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
271 total appearances

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Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

And, you know, when investigators and myself tried to follow this data trail and figure out where this could have come from, we could not find it even in the tools that journalists have access to to search through public records.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

And, you know, when investigators and myself tried to follow this data trail and figure out where this could have come from, we could not find it even in the tools that journalists have access to to search through public records.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

And, you know, when investigators and myself tried to follow this data trail and figure out where this could have come from, we could not find it even in the tools that journalists have access to to search through public records.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

It's terrifying, honestly. He doesn't know. Law enforcement is investigating as we speak. Right now, there's not clear, obvious suspects yet. But he's really scared because all of this really sensitive data, it was only available in his government file. He only recently updated it. He just moved like two months ago.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

It's terrifying, honestly. He doesn't know. Law enforcement is investigating as we speak. Right now, there's not clear, obvious suspects yet. But he's really scared because all of this really sensitive data, it was only available in his government file. He only recently updated it. He just moved like two months ago.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

It's terrifying, honestly. He doesn't know. Law enforcement is investigating as we speak. Right now, there's not clear, obvious suspects yet. But he's really scared because all of this really sensitive data, it was only available in his government file. He only recently updated it. He just moved like two months ago.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

It's very rare for people to go inside.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

It's very rare for people to go inside.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

It's very rare for people to go inside.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

So, Berulis can't confirm for sure, but he has reason to believe that there was potential malicious activity. According to his disclosure, there were multiple login attempts to the system from a Russian IP address that was using the new credentials that Doge appears to have created. So, Aisha, this happened within minutes of those new accounts being created.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

So, Berulis can't confirm for sure, but he has reason to believe that there was potential malicious activity. According to his disclosure, there were multiple login attempts to the system from a Russian IP address that was using the new credentials that Doge appears to have created. So, Aisha, this happened within minutes of those new accounts being created.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

So, Berulis can't confirm for sure, but he has reason to believe that there was potential malicious activity. According to his disclosure, there were multiple login attempts to the system from a Russian IP address that was using the new credentials that Doge appears to have created. So, Aisha, this happened within minutes of those new accounts being created.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

Because of all this, experts told me that they could see the possibility that Doge has been compromised. I spoke to Russ Handorf. He's a former FBI cyber expert. He said malicious cyber actors, whether they're criminals or hackers working for Russia and China, might be really interested in getting inside the NLRB systems. And that's for a couple of reasons. First, we've heard U.S.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

Because of all this, experts told me that they could see the possibility that Doge has been compromised. I spoke to Russ Handorf. He's a former FBI cyber expert. He said malicious cyber actors, whether they're criminals or hackers working for Russia and China, might be really interested in getting inside the NLRB systems. And that's for a couple of reasons. First, we've heard U.S.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

Because of all this, experts told me that they could see the possibility that Doge has been compromised. I spoke to Russ Handorf. He's a former FBI cyber expert. He said malicious cyber actors, whether they're criminals or hackers working for Russia and China, might be really interested in getting inside the NLRB systems. And that's for a couple of reasons. First, we've heard U.S.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

government officials sounding the alarm for years about stealing U.S. intellectual property to benefit their own industries and companies. It might also be valuable for blackmail purposes or to hold the data for ransom. But the thing about this is this cloud account could be connected to other government systems.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

government officials sounding the alarm for years about stealing U.S. intellectual property to benefit their own industries and companies. It might also be valuable for blackmail purposes or to hold the data for ransom. But the thing about this is this cloud account could be connected to other government systems.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

government officials sounding the alarm for years about stealing U.S. intellectual property to benefit their own industries and companies. It might also be valuable for blackmail purposes or to hold the data for ransom. But the thing about this is this cloud account could be connected to other government systems.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

And Handorf said that it could be a way for a hacker to jump off from NLRB and go somewhere else.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

And Handorf said that it could be a way for a hacker to jump off from NLRB and go somewhere else.