Elon Musk’s DOGE website seems to have been hacked, with tech experts commenting that the site feels “completely slapped together.”
The tech billionaire was appointed head of the US government’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by President Donald Trump. His role was to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.”
The website officially went live on Wednesday (February 12), with Musk promising that the department would be “maximally transparent” after critics pointed out the irony of the world’s richest man being in charge of cutting funds, while his own companies, like SpaceX, have benefited from the federal budget.
“I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization,” the Twitter owner said during his meeting with Trump in the Oval Office this week.
However, the website didn’t remain secure for long, as two of its pages were attacked by hackers on Friday (February 14), according to 404 Media.
One cryptic message was left on the site, reading: “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN – roro.”
A second message followed: “This is a joke of a .gov site.”
Both of them have been taken down since then.
Web development experts shared with the tech news outlet that the DOGE site “feels like it was completely slapped together,” with “tons of errors and details leaked in the page source code.”
