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.

  • Overconfidentiality@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    23 hours ago

    Our investigative media has been dead or bought out for a long time, and despite project 2025 being published, it’s all happening really quickly. I have a difficult time believing this isn’t the downfall of America. And we almost reached 250.

    • Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      But wait! Your good buddy Donnie signed an Executive Order to ensure that we planned a really good birthday party for America’s 250th!

      Sorry, I have been reading each and every Executive Order to better understand where we are and where we are going.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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      16 hours ago

      At this point I’m hoping America is annexed by Canada or something. It’s too dangerous to leave this country to its own devices, we are begging for invaders to come liberate us.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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      16 hours ago

      The upside is that often times throughout history massive actions like what is happening right now are restricted to the start or end of empires. Turns out fucking with how a state functions is a great way for it to collapse, the death of empires is often times slow until its not.