OPM to review potential risks from DOGE's access to sensitive federal systems

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Source: Politico

03/10/2025 04:41 PM EDT


The Trump administration is taking some of the first, though limited, steps to examine whether the gutting of the federal government and its networks by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has created major cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

The efforts by the Office of Personnel Management — the federal government’s human resources agency — come after Democratic lawmakers and security researchers have repeatedly sounded the alarm on possible security issues raised by DOGE personnel slashing the federal workforce and accessing sensitive government systems in the process.

Norbert Vint, the deputy inspector general performing the duties of OPM inspector general, sent a letter to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ranking member Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and other committee Democrats last week pledging to take action in response to concerns of “potential unauthorized access of government networks and sensitive information.” This includes looking at “specific emerging risks at OPM that are related to issues raised” by the lawmaker, and assessing the risks “associated with new and modified information systems at OPM.”

“We believe that, ultimately, our new engagement will broadly address many of your questions related to the integrity of OPM systems,” Vint wrote. He did not elaborate on specific details of this work.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/opm-security-doge-access-00221620

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Link to OPM DIG LETTER (PDF) - https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/hogr-minority-final.pdf

[RockRaven]

1. What good is a review at this point? It will be a cover-up, or it will cease to exist.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. This is being done by the IG office for OPM

where those offices are "independent" (The fired IGs are attempting to get reinstated and the individual mentioned is "Acting" but also aware of their mission).

Rather than do nothing, there may be information gained from demands to do something, which might yield some things that can be used for future litigation.

[Hugin]

3. All I know is that since January 20th...

Criminals coming into my home and trying to electronically rob me has gone from an average of zero/day to two or three attempts per day.

Now, I don’t know if this is due to a weakening of the CFPB, data from government sources being stolen, or both. But, I do know one big fat lying felonious raping thing has changed.