Doge Teen owned “Tesla.Sexy LLC” and worked for a startup that hired convicted hackers

Young technicians known online as “big balls” I work for Elon Musk’s so-called Government Efficiency Bureau (DOGE).you can access a sensitive US government system. However, his professional and online history raises doubts whether he will pass the background checks normally required to obtain security clearance, security experts tell Wired.

Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old high school graduate, has founded at least five different companies over the past four years, registered in Connecticut, Delaware and the UK, most of which have been his now-deprecated LinkedIn was not listed in. profile. Coristine worked easily at Path Network, a network monitoring company known for hiring black hat hackers that was reformed in 2022. Those using telegram handles tied to Coristine also sought employment services later that year for cyberattacks.

Coristine did not respond to multiple requests for comments.

Tesla.Sexy LLC, one of the companies founded by Coristine, was founded in 2021 at around the age of 16. Coristine is Listed as the company founder and CEOaccording to business records reviewed by Wired.

Tesla.Sexy LLC controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian registered domains. One still active domain offers a service called Helfie, an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market. The operation of a Russian website does not violate US sanctions that prevent Americans from doing business with Russian companies, but it can be a factor in security clearance reviews.

“Foreign relationships are flagged by any institution during the security investigation process, whether it is a foreign contact with a friend or a foreign registered domain name,” he said, and held security clearance for 10 years. And he managed the former US Army Intelligence Auditor Joseph Scherzi informs Wired of the security clearance of other units under his command.

A longtime former US intelligence news analyst who requested anonymity to speak on sensitive topics agrees. “It’s unlikely that he will pass a background check for privileged access to the government system,” they argue.

Another domain under Coristine’s control is faster. The website is currently inactive, Archive version From October 25, 2022, it shows Chinese content that stated that the service helped provide “multiple encrypted cross-border networks.”

Prior to joining Doge, Coristine worked at Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Implant Startup for several months in 2024. As Wired previously reportedcurrently listed in the Human Resources and Records Office as the agency’s “experts” and oversees federal personnel affairs. An employee at General Services Administration says he also took part in a call that was created to justify his work and confirm the code he wrote.

Other elements of Coristine’s personal records, reviewed by wired security experts, also state the questions about obtaining the security clearance needed to access privileged government data. He said he would raise it. These same experts are even more curious about the Doge staff review process. And if he was given the history of Coristine, he had received such a background check.

The White House did not immediately answer questions about what level of clearance, if any, colicin has, and if so, how it was granted.