A group of federal employees filed a class action on Tuesday against the Trump administration’s disclosure of sensitive personal information to Elon Musk and members of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, calling it the “largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history.”
The employees work at the Department of the Navy, the Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, the Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development, and each said they only learned about the disclosures via media reporting.
Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration three weeks ago, he has targeted several federal agencies in a proclaimed effort to tamp down on government waste, empowering billionaire Musk as a “special government employee” to gain unfettered access at the USAID, the Treasury Department, the Department of Labor and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The federal employees in Tuesday’s class action characterized the DOGE agents as hackers gaining unauthorized access to their information — including their names, addresses, Social Security numbers, passport numbers, medical records, and financial information.
Since Jan. 20, Musk and his DOGE agents — most of whom are between the ages 19 and 25 and were employees of Musk’s at some point — have been able to gain access to sensitive systems at the Treasury Department, the Labor Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The information include systems housed at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service that control the flow of over $6 trillion each year via Social Security and Medicare benefits, salaries for federal personnel, tax refunds and thousands of other functions.
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