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DOGE staffer violated Treasury rules by emailing unencrypted personal data | TechCrunch

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Marko Elez , a DOGE staffer working at the U.S. Treasury , emailed a spreadsheet with unencrypted personally identifiable information to two Trump administration officials prior to his resignation in February .

Elez resigned after racist social media posts linked to him surfaced online.

A federal lawsuit is seeking to block the Trump administration’s team of cost-cutters from accessing highly sensitive personal and financial data on millions of Americans held by the Treasury .