Former SpaceX and X engineer Marko Elez emailed sensitive information to another agency in violation of Treasury Department security rules, according to a court filing.
A staffer at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sent personally identifiable information to another agency in an insecure format.
As Bloomberg reports, Marko Elez emailed a spreadsheet with names, transaction types, and amounts of money to two people at the US General Services Administration (GSA).
According to David Ambrose, chief privacy officer for the Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS), the information is „low risk“ because it doesn’t include information like Social Security numbers of birth dates.
However, „Elez’s distribution of this spreadsheet was contrary to BFS policies, in that it was not sent encrypted, and he did not obtain prior approval of the transmission via a ‚Form 7005‘, describing what will be sent and what safeguards the sender will implement to protect the information“, Ambrose wrote in a Friday court filing.
