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

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.

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
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.

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
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

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
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.
Elon Musk's guide to handling his staff being directly racist.

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

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

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
The tweets of the DOGE staff member who said he was a racist etc have been removed from archive.org after a takedown request.

A federal judge has ruled all DOGE Teenage Mutant Techbro Incels must stop accessing US Treasury data immediately, and destroy all copies they took. A case is running claiming Elon Musk broke federal law.

The ruling backs up the CTI assessment by the now fired US Treasury threat intel analyst. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjw4g2q62xqo

Judge blocks Musk team access to Treasury Department records

Nineteen state attorneys general sued the Trump administration after the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) was given access.

BBC News

President Musk has tweeted that the judge is “corrupt” and called for him to be “impeached now” and the Vice President has said federal judges shouldn’t have legal power.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-judiciary-musk-separation-of-powers-balance-checks-069c169ea1ddf6eea76f502d544c4c16

Vance and Musk question the authority of the courts as Trump faces pushback

Top Trump administration officials are openly questioning the judiciary’s authority to serve as a check on executive power as the new president’s sweeping agenda faces growing pushback from the courts. Over the last 24 hours, officials ranging from billionaire Elon Musk to Vice President JD Vance, have criticized a federal judge’s decision early Saturday that blocks Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records that contain sensitive personal data such as Social Security and bank account numbers for millions of Americans. They have also attacked the legitimacy of judicial oversight, a fundamental pillar of a Democratic system based on a separation of powers.

AP News

If you start to see the US judiciary’s authority dismantled- they’re the final check on executive power - then you’re in the endgame to authoritarian rule.

It’s not there yet. But one to watch. The party of law and order may be the party who successfully disband it, it looks like they’re flirting with trying.

Remember Marko Elez, who wrote the "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.", “Normalize Indian hate” etc tweets, got a job at DOGE, and got given “read only” access to US Treasury systems?

It turns out he was given read/write access in error and it only noticed a day later. There’s a forensics operation going with his former laptop now (he resigned) to see what he did with the access as he was unsupervised.

https://therecord.media/treasury-fully-aware-of-risks-posed-by-doge-access-to-database

Treasury was ‘fully aware of the risks’ posed by DOGE access to payment systems, court filing says

A Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee was accidentally given the ability to edit a sensitive Treasury payment database, but he never did so and the mistake was quickly corrected.

Also, a US lawmaker has filed to try to impeach the judge who stopped access.

Just for the record, JD Vance, the "kid" you are referring to here was 25 years old when he tweeted things like "Normalise Indian hate" last month.

Which you know.

On Friday one of DOGE’s staff members published a blog about why they joined DOGE, citing the worst people imaginable of course. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/doge-elon-musk-ron-unz-holocaust-substack-post-sailer-vdare-trump/
DOGE worker says he was radicalized by reading writer who denied Holocaust

In a since-deleted Substack post, a member of Elon Musk's team praised an essay by Ron Unz—who has called the Holocaust potentially a "hoax" and said Trayvon Martin was "a violent young thug."

Mother Jones
Of note - Elon hand picked a bunch of these people, and has been openly praising them on X (along with the US VP).

Christopher Stanley, former Senior Director for Security Engineering at X and Principal Security Engineer at SpaceX, who now serves as a Musk aide at DOGE with a White House role.

"Also known as Unh0ly, enKrypt, or Reneg4d3—the former owner of Error33[.]net, a warez and hacking forum, and theC0re, a video game cheating community."

BlueSky thread:
https://bsky.app/profile/dogginglover.bsky.social/post/3lid446df4224

doge whisperer (@dogginglover.bsky.social)

Christopher Stanley, former Senior Director for Security Engineering at X and Principal Security Engineer at SpaceX, now serves as a Musk aide at DOGE with a White House role, and personally assisted in releasing January 6th prisoners.

Bluesky Social
Mr. Big Balls, who hung around in doxxing and DDoS channels, has been reinstated to DOGE and has been given access to CISA.
The White House is currently finding it difficult to fund its priorities due to the payments being denied by a 19 year old who goes by the name Mr. Big Balls online.
@GossiTheDog
He apparently thinks people with AIDS specifically should die.

@GossiTheDog

White House:

(shrug) "Welp, we tried. What can you do, you know what I mean?"

@GossiTheDog

Much stabby. Very guillotine. No mercy.

@GossiTheDog Talk about putting the fox in charge of the hen house. Well, actually, if you look at other appointees, this is somewhat of a pattern 🫣
@GossiTheDog That “prominently featured word” part feels a bit misleading, as the site (as archived) looks to just be echoing back things visitors have typed.

@GossiTheDog In German we have a saying „Den Bock zum Gärtner machen“ which literally translates to „Turning the goat into the gardener“.

And I think that fits the description perfectly fine in that case.

fox in the henhouse - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Wiktionary

@GossiTheDog Defending those scumbags is the last thing I'd do... But if running warez or hacking forums is a no-no, a lot of people in the security industry today might have a problem.

I remember #warez on efnet being quite busy in 1994 and you'll find a lot of those teenagers in respectable infosec positions today...

@ixs
Yeah. I'm not gonna say this guy isn't scum, but I wouldn't say it on those grounds without knowing a lot more.
@GossiTheDog

@dymaxion @GossiTheDog The guy is running with the DOGE rats.

He’s 100% guaranteed to be absolute scum.

But he’s not scum because he’s been in warez circles. He’s scum because he’s progressing the facist cause.

@GossiTheDog a video game cheating community? Is this how people get together nowadays? I don't even play video games.

@GossiTheDog

Last time, We got Trump's whole family,
grifting at the trough...
Now MUSK INC. gets a shot!

@GossiTheDog they are young, idolize him and will do anything he asks them to do. They don’t have the life experience to know what consequences or long term damage may come of their actions.
@GossiTheDog Thankfully, my biggest threat is people finding piles of my UFO things, abduction related things... mind you, if the climate went south on that topic, it'd be just as bad.
Not too beyond the pale to imagine a moment where: "You met aliens, you must die for the good of humanity" could be a thing.
@GossiTheDog Aligns with their mission statement, I guess.
@GossiTheDog More and more, I feel like a lot of this just started off as tech bros contrarianism. The leap from rethinking financial transactions to vaccine skepticism to Holocaust denial is very short for the kind of narcissists rewarded within libertarian tech culture

@GossiTheDog

If DOGE is a government agency or department how do you join it ? Don't you have to be hired through a competitive merit based recruitment process or am I thinking about democracies like Canada.