A 25 -year -old engineer named Marko Elez, who was working before Elon Musk companiesIt enjoys direct access to the Treasury Department’s systems responsible for all the payments they make US governmentThree sources tell the wire.
Two of these sources say that ELEZ privileges include the ability not only to read but to write a symbol on two of the most sensitive systems in the United States government: PAM and a safe payment system at the Financial Service Office (BFS). It is located at the level of a major ruler in the main center, which controls these systems, at the level of granules, government payments that reach more than one -fifth of the American economy.
Although The report that suggests This musk is called Ministry of Governmental efficiency (Doge) The work squad has access to these treasury systems at the level of “reading only”, as the sources say, Elez, who visited an office in the BFS office in the Kansas City city office, has many privileges at the level of officials. Usually, the officials’ privileges can be given the ability to log in to the servers through safe access to the shell, navigate the entire file system, change user permits, and delete or modify important files. This may allow someone to bypass security measures, and may cause irreversible changes, the same systems they can reach.
One of the sources known to the system, who adds, says that they cannot imagine a reason for the reason that anyone will need it simply to chase fraudulent payments or an analysis of drainage flow.
“Technically, I do not see why this cannot happen,” WIRED Federal IT factor tells in a late Monday night, referring to the possibility of A. Dodge The employee is granted high to a government servant. “If you asked me a week ago, I told you that this type of things will never happen in a million years. But now, who knows the curse.”
The source says they are concerned that data can be passed from safe systems to DOGE customers in Public Services Department (GSA). Wire reports It has shown that Elon Musk’s partners – including Nicole Hollande, who Sleep in Twitter offices When Musk acquired the company, Thomas Shad, the former Tesla engineer who It is now running GSAAlong with a group of Very young engineers and experiencedGSA infiltrated, and tried to use White House security data to reach GSA Tech, which experts said was very unusual and pose a great security threat.
ELEZ, according to the rules of general data and other records reviewed by WIRED, is twenty -five years old she graduated from Rutgers University in 2021, then worked in Spacex and Musk’s Space, where he focused on remote measurement for vehicles, stars, programs and programs Satellite. Then Elise joined X, Musk’s Social Media, where he worked in Search Ai. GitHub public warehouses show years of software development, with special interest in distributed systems, recommendations and machine learning engines. It does not seem to have previous government experience.
