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

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.

An aide to Elon Musk mistakenly received editing access to a sensitive US Treasury payments system, leading to concerns over data security. The aide, Marko Elez, resigned after being linked to a racist social media account but was reinstated by Musk.