A former employee of Elon Musk’s government-efficiency project DoG has alleged that workers at the organisation siphoned gigabytes of data from files at the National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) in Washington in March.
Whistleblower Daniel Berulis, a security architect at the NLRB, claimed that officials from DoG had demanded the creation of “all-powerful” accounts that were to be exempted from network logging activity.
Berulis said one of these new accounts had access to three external code libraries, which allowed rotating connections through a large pool of cloud IP addresses to generate pseudo-infinite IPs for web scraping and brute forcing.
A search revealed the description matched one created in 2025 by DOG employee Marko Elez.
Elez has previously worked for a number of Musk’s companies and was linked to social media posts that advocated racism and eugenics, though he was later rehired.