Teen member of Musk's Doge staff provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show

[groundloop]

Source: The Guardian

The best-known member of Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (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 US government. It is headed by Musk – the world’s richest man – with a powerful mandate from Donald Trump.

Past reporting had focused on the staffer’s 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: “Big Balls is awesome.”

Beginning around 2022, while still in high school, Coristine ran a company called DiamondCDN that provided network services, according to corporate and digital records reviewed by Reuters and interviews with half a dozen former associates. Among its users was a website run by a ring of cybercriminals operating under the name “EGodly,” according to digital records preserved by the internet intelligence firm DomainTools and the online cybersecurity tool Any.Run.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/teen-doge-staff-cybercrime-ring

[SheltieLover]

1. This guy has a bright future in prison.

[marble falls]

3. Tom Swift and his Cyber Creeps.

[SheltieLover]

6. Fall guy for tsf & co.

[marble falls]

7. Best part? When the fall-guy's lawyer wises him up to what he's facing and he rats the rats out.

[SheltieLover]

13. I hope tey do NOT give him a plea deal. Fuck him. Prison for life at minimum, no parole

The planet will be a much better place without this piece of shit.

[marble falls]

15. I think he's going inside anyways. I just want to see their solidarity break down.

[SheltieLover]

16. I want to see his smarmy ass in the gen population.

[marble falls]

2. Musk and his coterie have such an ethics deficit. They do nothing for the good of it ...

... they are only about their own selfish goals.

[unc70]

4. Well, isn't that special!

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Nothing like a good vetting.

[travelingthrulife]

8. And our two other branches of government are letting him run wild in our

government data. Who do you suppose he and Elon sold it to?

[Lonestarblue]

9. I posted this article on Facebook this morning. I'm not on any other social media or I would post it everywhere.

[republianmushroom]

10. Only the best people. Ha Ha

[bronxiteforever]

11. There is a cancer on the presidency. It has

metastasized from doge and the national security apparatus. No background checks unauthorized access leaked warplans etc

Dems should demand special prosecutors for both issues and Congressional hearings. None of this will happen but it is time to use their incompetence and corruption to go on offense. Flood the zone.

[markodochartaigh]

12. That kid has an interesting family history too.

https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-doge-staffer-is-grandson

[Martin68]

14. Here we go! The consequences of letting Musk into our government records will continue to haunt us for years.

[Exp]

17. KIck