A February 9th investigation reports that since January 2025, numerous critical U.S. government systems have become exposed to the public internet, coinciding with DOGE’s access to federal networks.
Over the past month, an unprecedented number of critical government systems, including those at the nation’s nuclear research labs, have been exposed to the open internet. This exposure jeopardizes both U.S. national security and the privacy of millions of Americans. Notably, this alarming trend seems to coincide with DOGE’s unrestricted access to federal networks.
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Between January 14 and February 8, servers belonging to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, and Fermi Accelerator National Laboratory have been found with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services exposed to the public internet. This grants malicious actors the opportunity to hack into servers hosting sensitive nuclear research data, a golden egg for spy agencies across the globe.
Alarmingly, a Department of Energy server allowed anonymous login with write access, raising the risk of hackers uploading malicious code or installing backdoors for persistent network access.
The investigation suggests these exposures, attributed to the DOGE skids (script kiddies), may violate multiple federal laws including the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Federal Information Security Management Act, potentially creating significant cybersecurity risks to national security and Americans’ privacy.
Soon after this was report was written exposing the DOGE insider breach of national security, the White House abruptly terminated hundreds of critical systems high-level security experts.
The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The employees, responsible for designing and maintaining the nation’s cache of nuclear weapons at the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA), were part of a larger wave of workers dismissed from the Energy Department, drawing alarm from national security experts. Between 300 and 400 NNSA workers were terminated, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The agency’s quick reversal was announced Friday in an all-staff meeting. The NNSA is seeking to recall the workers because they deal with sensitive national security secrets, according to the people, who weren’t authorized to talk about the matter, which is not public.
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The firings — part of a wave of terminations across the federal government this week spurred by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — underscore the chaos…
…some workers who were told they were being fired, received a second message telling them that they weren’t being terminated and that their jobs were safe — only to receive a third message telling them they were, in fact, out of a job.
The NNSA firings were part of a wider swath of dismissals across the Energy Department, which included … the group responsible for preventing cyberattacks against the power grid, and the department’s general counsel office.