Emails from Elon Musk‘s allies were sent to numerous federal government entities, including a judge overseeing a lawsuit aimed at blocking these messages.

U.S. District Judge Randolph Daniel Moss noted that judges across the country received these emails, likely by mistake, prior to the dissemination of the “fork in the road” message from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Judge Moss disregarded the email, according to the Associated Press.

Moss is presiding over a court challenge filed by federal employees who claim that Musk’s allies set up a server to send the emails without adequate privacy protections, exposing their information to potential hacking.

Moss declined to immediately block future messages, citing a recently completed privacy assessment by the government.

More to follow.

Reporting by the Associated Press contributed to this story.