A 25-year-old DOGE staffer was accidentally given permissions to edit the Treasury Department's payments system, according to court records.

A former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) “mistakenly” received editing access to a sensitive federal payment system at the Treasury Department for a brief period last week before

Prior to resigning from the Treasury Department, Marko Elez at one point had "read/write permissions" to the Secure Payment System, Joseph Gioeli III indicated in a court filing.

A 25-year-old associate of Elon Musk and former Treasury Department employee was "mistakenly" given the ability to make changes to a sensitive federal payment system, officials with the Bureau of the Fiscal Service disclosed in a series of court filings late Tuesday.