Feb 17, 2025 12:02:00

The official website for DOGE, led by Elon Musk, 'doge.gov' was open to anyone to update.

It has been reported that a serious security flaw has been found on the official website of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which was founded by President Donald Trump on January 20, 2025 and operates under the direction of entrepreneur Elon Musk, on

doge.gov , allowing anyone to edit the site.

Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/

Elon Musk's DOGE website has been defaced because anyone can edit it | The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/news/612865/doge-government-website-database-security-open

DOGE's .gov site lampooned as coders quickly realize it can be edited by anyone - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/doges-gov-site-lampooned-as-coders-quickly-realize-it-can-be-edited-by-anyone/

doge.gov is a website that began being updated after Musk told reporters that 'DOGE is trying to be as transparent as possible,' and at the time of writing, it contains posts from DOGE's official X account .

Work | DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency
https://doge.gov/

According to an anonymous web developer, doge.gov is built on the serverless development platform

Cloudflare Pages and is not hosted on the government's own servers. The developer said, 'DOGE probably stores the doge.gov source code through GitHub or similar. They build the website by deploying it to Cloudflare Pages, and it seems they do not own dedicated physical servers or Amazon Web Services.'

Therefore, the developer pointed out that 'third parties can update doge.gov, which is not running on the government's own servers, and if updated, it will be displayed on the website in real time.' The developer also investigated the website's architecture and discovered the database's API endpoint. He rewrote the database of employment information for government ministries and agencies, writing, 'This is a joke of a .gov site.'

Regarding DOGE, it has been reported that members of DOGE have gained access to and potentially control over Treasury Department systems, as well as copying confidential government data. This has led to some calling this a 'DOGE cyber attack' and 'potentially the most significant security breach in the history of the U.S. government.'

Concerns raised over DOGE's access to government systems, 'potentially the most significant security breach in the history of the US government' - GIGAZINE

At the time of writing, DOGE had not commented on the criticisms from multiple overseas media outlets.