Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) has gained entry “to a payroll system that processes salaries for about 276,000 federal workers throughout dozens of companies,” regardless of “objections from senior IT employees who feared it might compromise extremely delicate authorities personnel info” and result in cyberattacks, The New York Instances reported today.

The system on the Inside Division provides DOGE “visibility into delicate worker info, resembling Social Safety numbers, and the flexibility to extra simply rent and hearth staff,” the NYT wrote, citing folks conversant in the matter. DOGE staff had been making an attempt to get entry to the Federal Personnel and Payroll System for about two weeks and succeeded over the weekend, the report mentioned.

“The dispute got here to a head on Saturday, because the DOGE staff obtained the entry after which positioned two of the IT officers who had resisted them on administrative go away and beneath investigation, the folks mentioned,” in line with the NYT report. The company’s CIO and CISO are reportedly beneath investigation for his or her “office conduct.”

When contacted by Ars at present, the Inside Division mentioned, “We’re working to execute the President’s directive to chop prices and make the federal government extra environment friendly for the American folks and have taken actions to implement President Trump’s Govt Orders.”

DOGE’s entry to federal programs continues to develop regardless of court docket rulings that ordered the federal government to chop DOGE off from particular information, resembling these held by the Social Security Administration, Treasury Department, Division of Training, and Office of Personnel Management.