Kevin BeaumontFeb 4, 2025

A 25-year-old who's worked for Elon Musk companies now has direct control over a Treasury system disbursements from which amount to a fifth of the US economy. He has high-level admin privileges on a mainframe housing all the code. Access granted as debt ceiling crisis looms, officials in charge of the area have resigned in protest.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/

A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.

WIRED
Show threadKevin BeaumontFeb 4, 2025

For those wondering, he didn’t apply for a job - he was installed by DOGE, similar to USAID takeover.

Trump signed an executive order allowing DOGE to effectively do whatever it wants, so now you have Elon running around installing people.

Show threadKevin BeaumontFeb 6, 2025

A 19 year old has been given admin access to the core US treasury financial system by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

He goes by the name of “Mr. Big Balls” online, is on Russian forums, and has tried to purchase DDoS botnets.

Elon has said sharing this information is illegal, so please do not press the boost button.

https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/

DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers

Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

WIRED
Show threadKevin BeaumontFeb 6, 2025
Treasury agrees to block additional DOGE staff from accessing sensitive payment systems https://therecord.media/treasury-agrees-block-doge-access
Treasury agrees to block additional DOGE staff from accessing sensitive payment systems

All but two Department of Government Efficiency staffers are temporarily stopped from accessing Treasury payment systems.

Show threadKevin BeaumontFeb 7, 2025

One of the members of DOGE, 25 year old Marko Elez, has resigned after journalists reported on his X posts.

Examples: “I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask”, “I was a racist before it was cool”, “Normalize Indian hate”.

He had tried to delete the posts. Elon tried threatening those reporting on it with legal action.

Marko was one of the people given admin rights at the US Treasury.

https://www.tpr.org/2025-02-06/member-of-elon-musks-doge-team-resigns-after-racist-posts-resurface

Member of Elon Musk's DOGE team resigns after racist posts resurface

Marko Elez had recently been given special access by a federal judge to highly sensitive payment systems in the Department of Treasury.

TPR
Show threadKevin BeaumontFeb 7, 2025
Journalists probably want to look through this guys tweets, too. https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://twitter.com/Gavin_Kliger (press the button for all content, Mastodon breaks the link).
Wayback Machine

Show threadKevin BeaumontFeb 7, 2025
ProPublica is building a live list of those working for DOGE, since DOGE hasn’t actually disclosed this info and Elon keeps saying reporting it is illegal. Includes many InfoSec people. https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.

ProPublica
Show threadKevin BeaumontFeb 7, 2025
Elon has decided to bring back the DOGE staffer who tweeted about being a racist, wanted to normalize Indian hate, and said he wants a eugenics immigration policy.
Show threadKevin BeaumontFeb 7, 2025
Elon Musk's guide to handling his staff being directly racist.
Show threadKevin BeaumontFeb 7, 2025

The US Treasury Department has put out a cyber threat intelligence briefing saying "Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members, even 'read only,' likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced." https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-bfs-doge-insider-threat/

#threatintel

A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’

An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

WIRED
Show threadKevin BeaumontFeb 8, 2025

One of the people in DOGE and given access to US government systems now is from the Telegram group The Com - known in cyber circles for swatting, doxxing, MFA abuse etc.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/

Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’ – Krebs on Security

Show threadKevin BeaumontFeb 8, 2025
Several of the people in DOGE are behind multiple cryptocurrency scams https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/the-crypto-grifters-of-doge
The Crypto Grifters Of DOGE

How many crypto grifters does it take to screw up the machinery of state?

The Cryptocalypse Chronicles
Show threadKevin BeaumontFeb 8, 2025
The tweets of the DOGE staff member who said he was a racist etc have been removed from archive.org after a takedown request.
Show threadmeriksson

@GossiTheDog Rewrite history, wow.

Just wow.

Feb 8, 2025 at 10:12amWeb
Show threadchebraFeb 8, 2025

@meriksson

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
― George Orwell, 1984

Show threadmerikssonFeb 8, 2025
@chebra please make it fiction again, please.