Reuters has learned of Musk's team closing access to databases for government employees

Assistants of American entrepreneur and billionaire Ilon Musk, engaged in work in the U.S. Department of Human Resources, closed access to all databases with personal information for government employees. This was reported by Reuters on January 31, citing sources.

"Ilon Musk's aides in charge of managing the U.S. government's personnel agency have blocked access of personnel government employees to computer systems containing personal data of millions of federal employees," the agency said in its material.

According to the agency, Musk appointed his people in the management of the U.S. personnel agency after U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intention to reduce some of the country's government officials. According to the interlocutors of the publication, a number of high-ranking employees of the department lost access to some of the agency's systems. The systems, they said, included databases containing information on employees' dates of birth, addresses, salaries and length of employment.

"We have no information about what they (Musk's associates. - Ed.) are doing with the computers and data systems. This is a serious concern. There is no oversight. It creates real problems with cybersecurity and hacking," one official told the agency.

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Earlier on Jan. 30, CBS News reported that the Trump administration has demanded that some high-ranking members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) submit their resignations or retire. In case the demand is not fulfilled, the officials will be forcibly dismissed, specified the interlocutors of the publication.

Before that, on January 28, it was reported that the US Department of Justice fired more than a dozen employees involved in cases against US President Donald Trump. The dismissal of employees who worked in the team of special prosecutor Jack Smith is in line with the administration's "determination to purge the government of employees it considers disloyal to the President".

On January 20, Trump's team demanded the resignation of dozens of senior State Department diplomats in order to demonstrate a "decisive break" with the outgoing administration of current U.S. President Joe Biden. It is noted that American diplomats, including US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs John Bass and Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Jeffrey Pyatt, will leave their posts from noon on Monday after receiving instructions from Trump's aides.