alt Hacker NewsSo what exactly is being alleged here? That these DOGE bros wrote and used “hacker” code from GitHub to bypass security limitations on NLRB data? Why would they even need to do that if they had superuser accounts in the system already?
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DOGE downloaded libraries to assist in data exfiltration, and did exfiltrate data (obtained via the superuser accounts).
Suggest reading the complaint: https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025...
The article is written very poorly. The disclosure itself is far more readable.
https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025...
The lede is buried but the implication is downloading a huge amount of data on union organizers, which can then be given to a company to pre-emptively fire those individuals
they added a backdoor that is not audit logged. that's why.
I think the point of the article is that the whistleblower's original claims can be substantiated publicly. It's another datapoint indicating that the DOGE people are operating haphazardly at the absolute best and, more likely, attempting to obscure their tracks because they know that what they're doing wouldn't pass legal muster.