Here we go .... security sweep fails Security 101:

Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database

More light shed on what went down with Marko Elez, thanks to NY AG and co's lawsuit

A now-former DOGE aide violated US Treasury policy by emailing an unencrypted database containing people's private information to two Trump administration officials, according to a court document filed Friday.

That filing pertains to a February lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James and 18 other state AGs challenging DOGE's access to the Treasury Department's Bureau of Fiscal Services (BFS), which disburses trillions of dollars annually to US households, federal employees, and contractors including Social Security and Medicare benefits, tax credits, and grants and payments.

DOGE being the Trump-blessed unit, operated by the President's éminence grease Elon Musk, that has been going around the federal government looking for costs to trim, projects and programs to cancel, and thousands of civil servants to lay off. DOGE had been poking around inside the Treasury's systems ostensibly to find evidence of fraud and to flag up transactions the Tesla tycoon disapproved of, which New York et al in their lawsuit argue was digitally insecure and legally unsound.

The latest filing contains sworn testimony of David Ambrose, the chief security and privacy officer at the BFS, who told the court that then-DOGE operative Marko Elez violated Treasury rules by sending the unencrypted database including personally identifiable information and by not obtaining prior approval for the transmission.

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Read in full, please; the original is, as usual, full of links to supporting evidence elsewhere. It also appears there was less than full access given to the offender DOGE aide in question .... so there *were* grown-ups present in the room after all, trying to uphold the law by being sneakily careful.