Treasury investigates unauthorized access to payment system by Musk aide. Read/write permissions mistakenly granted, officials say.
A view shows a bronze seal beside a door at the U.S. Treasury building in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2023. - REUTERSPIX
The admission came in a sworn statement to a federal judge amid heated criticism that the young, inexperienced employees of billionaire Musk, who had no federal government status, had infiltrated a system that handles trillions of dollars in government payments and contains personal information on millions of Americans.
The sworn statement, seen by AFP, says that the employee, Marko Elez, was supposed to gain read-only access to the system, under the supervision of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which is the Treasury Department section that manages payments and collections. “On the morning of February 6, it was discovered that Mr. Elez’s database access to SPS on February 5 had mistakenly been configured with read/write permissions instead of read-only,“ said the statement from Joseph Gioeli, an official from the payments section.“A forensic investigation was immediately initiated by database administrators to review all activities performed on that server and database,“ he added.
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