Authorities consider three unidentified males posing as federal officers tried to grab delicate data from San Francisco Metropolis Corridor earlier than they had been rebuffed and fled on Friday afternoon.
At round midday, the suspects approached Metropolis Corridor carrying Division of Authorities Effectivity, or DOGE, shirts and MAGA hats, based on the San Francisco Sheriff’s Division.
The lads entered a number of places of work, demanding that native workers flip over digital data tied to “alleged wasteful authorities spending and fraud,” the sheriff’s division stated.
Metropolis Corridor employees refused their request and referred to as the sheriff’s division.
Whereas deputies responded throughout the minutes, the boys fled the constructing.
“We don’t consider they had been DOGE representatives,” stated Tara Moriarty, the sheriff’s Director of Communications. “As quickly because the sheriffs had been referred to as, they walked out of the constructing. They knew that their jig was up.”
The sheriff’s division stated it was reviewing surveillance footage as a part of its investigation.
Precise DOGE workers, led by tech titan Elon Musk, have allegedly tried to entry personal knowledge, together with checking account data and Social Safety numbers, via Treasury Division data.
A federal choose blocked Musk’s group from doing so final week and the choose prolonged the order on Friday.
Musk’s DOGE group was tasked by the Trump administration to eradicate wasteful authorities spending.
Musk was additionally briefly blocked earlier this week from accessing scholar mortgage and monetary support data from the Division of Training.
