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Report: 19-year-old DOGE team member "Big Balls" provided network support to cybercrime gang


According to records reviewed by Reuters, Coristine ran a company called DiamondCDN that provided network services from around 2022, while he was still in high school. Among...

EGodly thanked DiamondCDN for providing it with DDoS protection and caching systems in February 2023, noting that Coristine's company helped it securely host and safeguard its website, dataleak.fun. That same year, EGodly boasted on its Telegram channel that it had hijacked phone numbers, broke into law enforcement email accounts in Latin America, and committed cryptocurrency theft. Nitin Natarajan, who served as the deputy director of CISA under former President Joe Biden, told Reuters that it was concerning someone who had provided services to cybercriminals now had access to sensitive government networks.

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