Elon Musk’s DOGE Website Raises Major Security Concerns

The DOGE website, launched to showcase Elon Musk’s team’s efforts to overhaul the US federal government, has a major flaw—it’s open for anyone to edit. This is the same DOGE organization that now has unprecedented access to sensitive US financial systems containing data on millions of Americans.

Despite displaying a banner claiming it’s “an official website of the United States government,” the site’s developers describe it as hastily thrown together, with no clear evidence it’s running on government-secured servers. This raises questions about the White House’s website management practices, especially after the newly created waste.gov site was hidden and locked on Wednesday for being nothing more than an unedited WordPress template.

The DOGE website, which launched in January, initially had little to show aside from three lines of text and a cartoonish logo that has since been removed. It remained largely empty for weeks. During an Oval Office press conference on Tuesday, Elon Musk praised DOGE’s cost-cutting measures as “maximally transparent” because the organization was publishing updates to X and the DOGE website. However, at the time of his remarks, the site had virtually no content.

The website finally received an update on Thursday. It now features posts from the DOGE X account alongside statistics on US government regulations and the federal workforce. But the discovery of its editable configuration highlights significant security and credibility concerns over how DOGE is managing its digital platforms.