Despite its overwhelmingly popular mission of rooting out waste and fraud within the federal government, the Department of Government Efficiency has drawn sharp criticism from big-government leftists who demand that unaccountable bureaucrats continue receiving blank checks backed by unlimited taxpayer dollars.
‘ABSURD’: Former Arkansas Gov @GovMikeHuckabee joined @EveningEdit and defended DOGE, saying Democrats are demanding “bigger government, more waste.” pic.twitter.com/gKj2hSSJXG
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 15, 2025
In a stated effort to increase transparency into its oversight and discoveries, DOGE recently introduced a website and has promised additional features will be available in the near future.
Of course, it didn’t take long for hackers to begin targeting the site in a search for security vulnerabilities.
As Breitbart reported, at least a couple of them found what they were looking for:
DOGE’s website tracking Musk’s cuts to the federal government was not secure and pulls from a database that could be edited by anyone, two separate people who found the vulnerability told 404 Media.
A hacker who became privy to the vulnerability made an update to the site, making it so that doge.gov displayed a message that read, “This is a joke of a .gov site.”
“THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN,” a second message posted by a hacker to DOGE’s website read.
ADVERTISEMENTAs Breitbart News reported, the official DOGE website was launched on Wednesday, with Musk announcing that his team is “trying to be as transparent as possible.”
New from 404 Media: anyone can push updates to the https://t.co/kMH4ihnpGw site. Two sources independently found the issue, one made their own decision to deface the site. "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."https://t.co/u0iPU0GEmW pic.twitter.com/Tk81I1qk9E
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) February 14, 2025
The DOGE website has been a common topic of discussion on social media in recent days:
NEWS: The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has officially launched their website, increasing transparency and better informing people.
It includes details of cost savings (launching in a couple days), workforce info, regulations info and more.
DOGE website:… pic.twitter.com/NNOLrwHIO7
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) February 13, 2025
The DOGE website is officially up and running! Follow the fun in real time.
The only thing missing is a "fun meter" to measure the levels of glee felt around America!
Get 'er done DOGE dudes! pic.twitter.com/GEr6oZi5HG
— Phil Williams (@SenPhilWilliams) February 13, 2025
Newsweek also provided coverage of the apparent security breach:
A second coder said: “Basically, doge.gov has its codebase, probably through GitHub or something. They’re deploying the website on Cloudflare Pages from their codebase, and doge.gov is a custom domain that their pages.dev URL is set to. So rather than having a physical server or even something like Amazon Web Services, they’re deploying using Cloudflare Pages, which supports custom domains.”
Coding expert Sam Curry, on X, formerly Twitter: “The DOGE website appears to be developed and hosted by Outburst Data, run by current DOGE employee Kyle Schutt.
“If you view the source of any page on the DOGE website, you’ll see that the images are proxied through Cloudflare’s ImageDelivery service.”
What’s Happens Next
It appears that the DOGE team has since fixed the issue with their website, as the messages are now gone. Whether they will succeed in their primary goal of substantially reducing federal government spending remains to be seen.
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