Summary

A vulnerability in the new OPM email server allowed anyone to send mass messages to federal employees, exposing poor cybersecurity.

Over 13,000 NOAA staff received spam and vulgar messages, including crude jokes about Trump and bizarre newsletters, causing widespread outrage.

The breach resulted from an overhaul led by Elon Musk that installed underqualified personnel and an insecure in-house system, sparking a class-action lawsuit for cybersecurity failures.

The unsecured system also inadvertently revealed ties to Project 2025 and a plan to gather government employee data as Trump’s loyalists reshape federal operations.

  • Yardy Sardley@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    they are idiots that are completely messing everything up including their own plans

    Incompetence is one of the hallmark qualities of a fascist government.

    • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Hey, people think Hitler’s Germany was a success story until he started to loose the war but it was actually a clusterfuck right from the beginning and doomed to fail from the start.

      • Kitathalla@lemy.lol
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        6 hours ago

        I mean, he loosed war pretty early, so it wasn’t that long according to what you say.