Pure boldness.

The Secret Service has apologized to the owner of a Massachusetts salon who claims an agent helped people break into her store to use her restroom while an event hosted by Vice President Kamala Harris was taking place nearby.

Berkshire businesswoman Alicia Powers said someone picked the lock and broke into her business to use the bathroom – after a Secret Service agent taped over a camera outside her salon.

Among those who subsequently used the restroom were a couple in emergency medical technician uniforms, a person in police officer camouflage clothing and someone in a dark suit and white shirt who resembled a Secret Service officer and guarded the door, Powers said, citing footage.

A Secret Service official maintained that agents would not break into such buildings – but did not deny that an officer had covered her camera with tape (an act that was recorded on security cameras) and appeared to be making a statement that would appear to be an admission of guilt.

“The Secret Service has since been in touch with the business owner involved. We value these relationships highly and our personnel would not enter a business or direct our partners to enter one without the owner’s permission,” said Secret Service spokeswoman Melissa McKenzie.

According to Business Insider, Powers said the head of the Secret Service’s Boston field office called her to apologize.

“He told me that everything that was done was very wrong,” Powers told the outlet. “They should not have shielded my camera without permission. They should not have entered the building without permission.”

The shop owner, who owns the Four One Three salon in Pittsfield, said the incident occurred on July 27, before Harris’ first major in-person fundraiser since President Biden dropped out of the race, paving the way for the vice president to become the Democratic presidential nominee.

The salon is located behind the Colonial Theater, where Harris’ event took place.

She said her salon was closed before the fundraiser because of security chaos.

“They’ve had a lot of people here again, coming in and out, doing some bomb sweeps – they completely understand what they need to do given the nature of the situation,” she told the outlet.

“And at that point, my team felt like everything was a bit chaotic and we just decided to close on Saturday.”

Then early that morning, a Secret Service agent put tape over a Ring security camera in the salon, Powers said.

Footage of the ordeal was later posted on social media.

For security reasons, the authority has covered certain cameras during perimeter security checks in the past.

Later that day, another surveillance camera in the building detected four more people inside over a period of more than an hour, Powers claimed.

“For about an hour and a half, there were several people out there on and off – they were just using my bathroom, the alarms were going off, they were using my counter, without permission,” Powers told Business Insider.

“And then when they finished using the bathroom after two hours, they left and left my building completely unlocked and didn’t take the tape off the camera.

“Whoever was visiting, whether they were a celebrity or not, I probably would have opened the door and made them coffee and brought in doughnuts to give them a great afternoon,” she said. “But they didn’t even have the audacity to ask permission. They just helped themselves.”

She claimed that an emergency services worker later told her that a Secret Service officer in charge “told people to come in and use the restroom.”

The incident occurred about two weeks after would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed onto a shed roof about 400 feet from former President Donald Trump during a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and fired several shots, including one that struck Crooks’ ear.

One bystander was killed and two others were injured by the gunman’s bullets. Crooks was shot and killed by police officers.

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned amid the backlash over the security breaches; several investigations into the incident are currently underway.