Musk’s treasury access raises concern over cyber and national security vulnerability

A federal judge’s order that Elon Musk’s team temporarily cease boring into the treasury department’s payment systems raises a far larger question: whether what Elon Musk has labelled the department of government efficiency is creating a major cyber and national security vulnerability.

The activities of Musk’s government cost-cutting effort, Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said in his order on Saturday, risk “the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information” and render the Treasury’s systems “more vulnerable than before to hacking”.