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New Reuters on Big Balls and his tech support to a cybercrime org

Archived version:
ghostarchive.org/archive/uNaoy

reuters.com/world/us/doge-staf

WILMINGTON, Delaware, March 26 (Reuters) - 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 and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.

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 radically downsize the U.S. government.

ghostarchive.orgExclusive: DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show | Reuters | Ghostarchive
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circulating his phone number, photographs of his house, and other private details on Telegram. EGodly also posted an audio recording of an obscene prank call made to the agent's phone and a video, shot from the inside of a car, of an unknown party driving by the agent's house in Wilmington, Delaware at night and screaming out the window, "EGodly says you're a bitch!"…

Criminal nerd! He has the best qualifications to work for Musk.
#EdwardCoristine
#BigBalls
#DOGE
#FCKMSK
#FCKTRMP

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#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."

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
reuters.com/world/us/doge-staf

#DOGE #BigBalls

"Among the cadre of DOGE engineers now rooting through the guts of the administrative state, few have attracted more curiosity than Edward 'Big Balls' Coristine, a 19-year-old coder who interned for three months for Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant company. Coristine has a brief but colorful history that includes being fired from Path Networks, a cybersecurity company, for giving company documents to a competitor. He apparently palled around with a criminal hacking group called The Com and, according to a Telegram account associated with him, had solicited hacking services online. In 2021, he founded a company called Tesla.Sexy LLC that, according to Wired, 'controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian-registered domains. One of those domains, which is still active, offers a service called Helfie, which is an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market.'

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There’s one aspect of Coristine’s background that has escaped public notice: his grandfather, Valery Martynov, was a KGB spy who played an intriguing role in a sprawling 1980s espionage drama."

jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent

Jacob Silverman · Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB SpyBy Jacob Silverman