A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System

A news report claims that a 25-year-old engineer, Marko Elez, who previously worked for Elon Musk–linked companies, has administrator-level and code-writing access to the U.S. Treasury’s Payment Automation Manager (PAM) and Secure Payment System (SPS) on a top-secret mainframe; sources warn those privileges could allow changes to government payment systems that together represent more than a fifth of the U.S. economy, creating a potentially massive privacy and security risk though active malicious activity is not confirmed.