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From Article - The DOGE website created to document how Elon Musk’s team is eviscerating the US federal government is wide open for anyone to edit. This is the same DOGE organization that has gained unprecedented access to sensitive US financial systems with data on millions of Americans. Two web development experts reported the security flaw to 404Media after discovering that doge.gov is pulling from a database that third parties can access and update, pushing unauthorized entries to the live website. At least two database entries have been added by one of the coders to say “this is a joke of a .gov site” and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro.” Both pages are still visible hours after 404Media published its report. While doge.gov displays a banner describing itself as “an official website of the United States government,” the developers say it “feels like it was completely slapped together” and doesn’t appear to be running on government servers.'The official website of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, has a major security flaw that allows hackers to easily edit its web pages, 404 Media reports. Two coders discovered the flaw and shared their findings with the publication. According to them, the doge.gov website was built on Cloudflare pages hosted on non-government servers, and the database it pulls information from can be accessed easily. One of the coders managed to access and edit two web pages that are currently live on the website. On one page, they added, “These experts left their databases open,” and on another, they wrote, “This is a joke of a .gov site.
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