A staffer working for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) broke Treasury policies by sending an email containing unencrypted personal information, according to testimony from a senior government cybersecurity official in a federal lawsuit. Marko Elez, a DOGE staffer working at the U.S. Treasury, emailed a spreadsheet with unencrypted personally identifiable information to two Trump administration officials prior to his resignation in early February after racist social media posts linked to Elez surfaced online. Details of the security lapse emerged in a court filing on Friday containing testimony by David Ambrose, the chief security and privacy officer at the Treasury's Bureau of Fiscal Services, the division of the Treasury that disburses some trillions of dollars in federal funds to American households every year. A coalition of U.S. attorneys general brought the lawsuit in an effort to block the Trump administration's team of DOGE cost-cutters from accessing highly...
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