{"id":37064,"date":"2025-03-26T13:15:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/teen-member-of-musks-doge-staff-provided-tech-support-to-cybercrime-ring-records-show\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:15:46","slug":"teen-member-of-musks-doge-staff-provided-tech-support-to-cybercrime-ring-records-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/teen-member-of-musks-doge-staff-provided-tech-support-to-cybercrime-ring-records-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen member of Musk\u2019s Doge staff provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Coristine, who is 19, is among members of Doge effort that has been given access to official networks<\/p>\n<p>The best-known member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk\u2019s<\/a> so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/fbi\">FBI<\/a> agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Coristine is among the most visible members of the Doge effort that has been given sweeping access to official networks as it attempts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/19\/musk-democrats-social-security-fraud\">radically downsize<\/a> the US government. It is headed by Musk \u2013 the world\u2019s richest man \u2013 with a powerful mandate from Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/26\/teen-doge-staff-cybercrime-ring\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Coristine, who is 19, is among members of Doge effort that has been given access to official networks The best-known member of Elon Musk\u2019s so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according &#8230; <a title=\"Teen member of Musk\u2019s Doge staff provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/teen-member-of-musks-doge-staff-provided-tech-support-to-cybercrime-ring-records-show\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Teen member of Musk\u2019s Doge staff provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}