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So it was real, Elez was accidentally given read/write access for, it looks like, less than a day.
Treasury Department officials said Tuesday that the agency last week “mistakenly” and “briefly” gave a member of Elon Musk’s team the power to alter a sensitive federal payments database, prompting an internal forensic investigation that remains ongoing.
The disclosure, made in a series of court filings, undercuts the Trump administration’s repeated public claims that the DOGE team’s access to the federal payments system was limited to a “read-only” basis.
Senior Treasury officials wrote in sworn declarations that Marko Elez, a 25-year-old former SpaceX and X engineer, was erroneously granted “read/write” privileges to a secure payments system on Feb. 5.TLDR: The Fiscal Bureau was using cyber tools to track his usage and discovered the morning of Feb 6 Elez had accidentally been configured with read/write access. Elez didn't know he had write access, they are investigating but think there's little chance anything happened.
https://archive.is/tR1tW 