Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old engineer at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), known as ‘Big Balls’, is now on staff at the CyberSecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Wired confirmed. According to a government source, there is another member of the Doge team, 38-year-old software engineer Kyle Schutt, who is now also in CISA staff.

Cisa referred Wired to the Department of Home Security (DHS), of which it is a component agency, when reached for comment. DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Coristine-an internal internal internal for Musk’s brain-computer interface business, Neuralink, as Wired reported-has worked by numerous federal agencies and departments since January. He was found at the General Services Administration (GSA), the office of staff management, the State Department and Fema. At the state’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology, he may have had access to systems that contain sensitive information about diplomats and many sources and spies around the world that provide the US government of intelligence and expertise.

While journalist Marisa had to report Kabas for the first time, he has now moved to Cisa, a division of DHS. He is listed in the staff guide as a senior adviser.

A second Doge worker, Schutt, also joined Coristine with CISA. Schutt was also reported at the GSA. Prior to his work with Doge, he worked on the launch of Winred, a Republican fundraising platform that helped the party raise $ 1.8 billion during the election campaigns in 2024.

It is not yet clear what level of access Coristine may have on data and networks at CISA, but the agency, which is responsible for defending the civil federal federal government networks and working closely with critical infrastructure owners across the country, stores very sensitive and critical security information about its networks. This includes information on the vulnerabilities of software, offenses and network risk determinations made for local and state election offices. Since 2018, CISA has helped to assess state and local election offices across the country vulnerabilities in their networks and help secure them. CISA is also working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency to notify victims of offenses and process information on the vulnerabilities of software before the information is revealed.

Coristine, as Wired has previously reported, briefly worked in 2022 for Path Network, a network monitoring firm known for renting Reformed Blackhat hackers. According to security journalist Brian Krebs, an account that was once associated with him was also previously linked to a loose-formed cyber criminal community, known as the com, whose members have been responsible for various hacking operations over the past few years, including the Hack of numerous snowflake accounts. Coristine was not associated with the Snowflake offenses, but as Wired reported, it seemed as if an account associated with him indicated that the owner of the account was seeking help from a distributed denial of the service attack – a criminal technique that involves introducing extensive traffic to a domain to deactivate it and prevent legal traffic to reach it. Krebs also reported that Path Coristine fired for allegedly leaking internal business documents to a participant.

The Washington Post reported last week that Coristine was assigned to the DHS as a senior adviser, but did not indicate which part of the vast agency he joined.

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