Officials said accessing system that processes 276,000 employees\u2019 salaries could put unit at risk of cyber-attacks<\/p>\n
Members of Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) reportedly gained access to a payroll system over the weekend that processes salaries for around 276,000 federal employees across various government agencies, despite warnings from senior staff about the potential risks.<\/p>\n According to two people familiar with the situation who spoke with the New York Times<\/a>, Doge employees had spent around two weeks trying to obtain administrative access to the program, known as the Federal Personnel and Payroll System.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Officials said accessing system that processes 276,000 employees\u2019 salaries could put unit at risk of cyber-attacks Members of Elon Musk\u2019s so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) reportedly gained access to a payroll system over the weekend that processes salaries for around 276,000 federal employees across various government agencies, despite warnings from senior staff about the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}