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Report: DOGE Employee Known as “Big Balls” Once Helped Cybercrime Gang

HeadlineMar 26, 2025

Reuters has published a major exposé on one of Elon Musk’s top technologists at DOGE: the 19-year-old Edward Coristine, whose nickname is “Big Balls.” Reuters reports that beginning in 2022, the then-high-school student provided technical support to a cybercrime gang that cyberstalked an FBI agent and trafficked in stolen data.

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