'Experts left database open': Hackers mock Elon Musk after easily defacing his DOGE site

A pair of unidentified hackers is taking a victory lap after they successfully defaced the website for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. What's more, they tell 404 Media that anyone with sufficient knowledge of coding can do the same. As the hackers explained to 404 Media, the DOGE website "is insecure and pulls from a database" called Cloudflare Pages "that can be edited by anyone," which allowed them to post visible entries on the DOGE database that read " this is a joke of a.gov site ” and “ THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro.” 404 Media notes that the DOGE website was slapped together quickly after Musk told reporters that his department was providing maximum transparency in his efforts to unilaterally and illegally shut down entire government agencies whose funding had been approved by Congress. Tech news website The Verge adds some context to the 404 Media report by writing that the DOGE website blunder "establishes a poor track record for the White House’s website administration practices" as "on Wednesday, the newly created waste.gov site was hidden and locked down after it was found to be mostly displaying an unedited WordPress template."