Thousands of US federal employees access sensitive documents under Biden, Trump: Report

ISTANBUL

Over 11,000 federal employees in the US under both the Biden administration and the current Trump administration have accessed sensitive documents, including White House floor plans and vendor banking information, according to a report by The Washington Post.

Career employees at the General Services Administration (GSA), which supports federal operations and manages real estate, were behind the oversharing of sensitive documents, leading to a cybersecurity incident report and investigation last week.

The records reveal that employees accidentally shared a Google Drive folder with sensitive documents with the entire GSA staff of over 11,200 people, according to the agency’s directory.

The documents also included plans for a White House visitor center blast door and bank details for a vendor linked to a Trump administration news conference.

Nine of the 15 files were marked as sensitive but unclassified (CUI), and at least 10 were accessible and editable by anyone in the agency.

The file-sharing started in early 2021, under Biden, and continued through the Trump administration, with a recent instance last week.

Last month, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, said he had been inadvertently included in a messaging group where US Vice President JD Vance, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other senior officials discussed plans for an attack on Houthi targets in Yemen hours before it took place on March 15.