Elon Musk's DOGE Website Is Super Easy to Hack
This will be unsurprising to anyone who has visited the DOGE.gov website since its inception—it looks like a high schooler could've made it. 404's Jason Koebler previously referred to it as 'just a Wordpress theme placeholder page.'
Anonymous experts told 404 Media that the doge.gov website is supported by a Cloudflare page outside of government servers, making it easily accessible to third party hackers..
'Feels like it was completely slapped together,' one of the sources said. 'Tons of errors and details leaked in the page source code.'
Musk has yet to comment on the hacks as he continues promising 'transparency.'
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