Cybersecurity experts who worked to secure U.S. government computers from Russian and Chinese hackers have been ousted from their roles following pressure from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to two people familiar with the matter. More than 200 people, split roughly between contractors and employees, were let go beginning in February from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, amid sweeping staff reductions across the federal government, said the two people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share information with the media. Some of the workers had decades of experience, they said.
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