Doge Staffer With Access To Americans’ Personal Data Leaked Private Xai Api Key

A DOGE staffer pinch entree to nan backstage accusation connected millions of Americans held by nan U.S. authorities reportedly exposed a backstage API cardinal utilized for interacting pinch Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot.

Independent information journalist Brian Krebs reports that Marko Elez, a typical authorities worker who successful caller months has worked connected delicate systems astatine nan U.S. Treasury, nan Social Security Administration, and Homeland Security, precocious published codification to his GitHub containing nan backstage key. The cardinal allowed entree to dozens of models developed by xAI, including Grok.

Philippe Caturegli, laminitis of consultancy patient Seralys, alerted Elez to nan leak earlier this week. Elez removed nan cardinal from his GitHub but nan cardinal itself was not revoked, allowing continued entree to nan AI models.

“If a developer can’t support an API cardinal private, it raises questions astir really they’re handling acold much delicate authorities accusation down closed doors,” Caturegli told KrebsOnSecurity.