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Exclusive: #DOGE staffer, '#BigBalls', provided tech support to #cybercrime ring, records show
The best-known member of Elon #Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data & #cyberstalking an #FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.
#USpol #InfoSec #NationalSecurity #Trump
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/
#EdwardCoristine is among the most visible members of the #DOGE effort that has been given sweeping access to official networks as it attempts to radically downsize the U.S. government.
Past reporting had focused on his youth - he is 19 - and his chosen nickname of "#BigBalls," which became a pop culture punchline. #Musk has championed the teen on his social media site X, telling his followers last month that "Big Balls is awesome."
Beginning around 2022, while still in high school, #Coristine ran a company called DiamondCDN that provided network services, acc/to corporate & digital records reviewed by Reuters & interviews w/half a dozen fmr associates. Among its users was a website run by a ring of #cybercriminals operating under the name "EGodly," acc/to digital records preserved by the internet intelligence firm DomainTools & the online #cybersecurity tool Any.Run.