WASHINGTON: A US judge issued an emergency order early Saturday (Feb 8) blocking Elon Musk's government reform team from accessing personal and financial data stored at the Treasury Department, court documents showed. US District Judge Paul A.
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The temporary restrictive order, which remains in effect until a Feb 14 hearing, also says any such person who has accessed data from the Treasury Department's records since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president on Jan 20 must"immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded". The attorneys general alleged the administration violated the law by expanding access to sensitive Treasury Department data to staff from Musk's DOGE.
"That is both because of the risk that the new policy presents of the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information and the heightened risk that the systems in question will be more vulnerable than before to hacking," he wrote.
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