Russian Asset in WH Part 4: DOGE accounts create backdoor access for Kremlin hackers in NLRB databases via krebsonsecurity.com

Submission Statement: In an April 14 2025 letter to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence , Daniel J. Berulis, a 38-year-old security architect at the NLRB
witnessed the creation of DOGE accounts with unrestricted permission to read, copy, and alter information contained in NLRB databases, on March 3, 2025

?>>{{ Berulis said he and his colleagues grew even more alarmed when they noticed nearly two dozen login attempts from a Russian Internet address (83.149.30,186) that presented valid login credentials for a DOGE employee account — one that had been created just minutes earlier. Berulis said those attempts were all blocked thanks to rules in place that prohibit logins from non-U.S. locations.

>>“Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created accounts that were used in the other DOGE related activities and it appeared they had the correct username and password due to the authentication flow only stopping them due to our no-out-of-country logins policy activating,” Berulis wrote. “There were more than 20 such attempts, and what is particularly concerning is that many of these login attempts occurred within 15 minutes of the accounts being created by DOGE engineers.”

>>According to Berulis, the naming structure of one Microsoft user account connected to the suspicious activity suggested it had been created and later deleted for DOGE use in the NLRB’s cloud systems: “[DogeSA_2d5c3e0446f9@nlrb.microsoft.com](mailto:DogeSA_2d5c3e0446f9@nlrb.microsoft.com).” He also found other new Microsoft cloud administrator accounts with nonstandard usernames, including “Whitesox, Chicago M.” and “Dancehall, Jamaica R.”}}

>>From the Office of the Chief of Staff, to the Department of Defence, and similar divisions in U.S. govt , the Kremlin has its claws opening locks.

>>p.s. : Both Amazon and Musk’s SpaceX have been suing the NLRB over complaints the agency filed in disputes about workers’ rights and union organizing, arguing that the NLRB’s very existence is unconstitutional. On March 5, a U.S. appeals court unanimously rejected Musk’s claim that the NLRB’s structure somehow violates the Constitution.