A top employee of billionaire Elon Musk, who is now working in the US Justice Department, had stunned to hack and distribute the pirated software, according to the stored copies of his former websites reviewed by the previously reviewed by Reuters.
Christopher Stanley, a 33-year-old engineer, who has worked in both Musk’s social media company X and Space-Lanch Company SpaceX, is a senior advisory in the office of the Deputy Attorney General, according to an employee directory list reviewed by an officer and Reuters of former Justice Department.
Stanley was assigned there to reduce the federal bureaucracy by President Donald Trump while working for Musk’s Government Efficiency Department. Musk has stated that no one has been more transparent than the organization Dog “, but has very little public information about its employees’ responsibilities and backgrounds.
Stanley launched a series of websites and forums starting back till 2006, when he was 15 years old, the Internet Intelligence Firm Donantols Show protected registration data. Many of those sites cheated pirated e -books, booting software and video games, a non -profit, whose ‘weback machine’ preserves old websites, according to copies placed by the Internet Archive.
According to the stored posts, Stanley claimed to have hacked websites on at least two forums, one of which is at the age of 19. At that time, he said that he had placed behind his hacking days. But a Youtube video he posted in 2014 reflects his participation in a violation of customer data from a rival hacking group, when he was 23 years old.
In response to questions for this story, the Department of Justice did not directly address the current role of Stanley or her past, but he said that he had an active security approval that was before his employment in Dogi. In a statement to Reuters, American Attorney General Palm Bondi said he had “full confidence and belief in Chris’ ability to help the federal government.” Stanley, White House, SpaceX and X did not respond to the recommendations requests.
In hours of contacting Stanley, Reuters, many of their old websites disappeared from the Internet collection. Vakeback Machine director Mark Graham refused to answer specific questions about the disappearance of Stanley’s websites, but said that those who own the rights of the sites can request to withdraw their content from the collection.
National security professionals were quite divided to a large extent to take Stanley’s past. Six former justice officials told the Reuters that their background raised red flags, given that the department handles sensitive information, including the details of the federal investigation and other information protected by the grand jury secrecy rules.
Jonathan Rush said, “I would have very serious concerns about hiring him and reaching such a record,” Jonathan Rush said, who spent more than 25 years as the prosecutor of the Education Department. Rush said that Stanley’s background was worrisome, especially for an employee of a justice department, as he revealed the data, which he had “illegally acquired by illegally.”
Dan Guido, whose digital safety firm Trail of Bits has worked with justice and defense departments, was more forgiving. Stanley’s history of hacking should not be disqualified from working in DOJ, he said, citing Stanley’s youth and the way he targeted other hackers as factors. “This is a way that I have seen many people learning.”
Reuters could not determine the responsibilities of Stanley’s specific justice department. The former private attorney of Trump, the office of the Deputy Attorney General run by Todd Blanches, oversees all American Attorney offices, and manage criminal investigation into several crimes including hacking and other malicious cyber activity.
Reuters could not even establish whether Stanley remains employed by X and SpaceX. On LinkedIn, he still recognizes himself as working for them and does not give any reference to the work of his justice department. A profile photo on X shows him standing in front of the symbol for the office of justice programs, an office of the department that gives a grant prize. The DOJ said that like Musk, Stanley is classified as a “special government employee” and is not drawing government salary.
Piracy, video games cheat and hacking
Other members of Musk’s Dogi team have faced an investigation on their background.
When Reuters stated last week that Dogi’s employee Edward Corestein had earlier provided a network infrastructure to a gang of cyber criminal, in the Republican -led Representative Assembly Committee, Democrat said in a post on X that this was another reason “We need a complete investigation to work for DONE.” Coristine has not responded to the requests for comments.
About 10 years before joining Spacex, Stanley ran several online forums, which used to cover software piracy, video games cheating and hacking. He used various pseudo -names on sites, including encrypts and Renag 4D3, both he still uses on some social media accounts.
Reuters were able to connect Stanley to Stanley now-difper websites and user names by cross-referring the registration data of sites against their old email address and recovering the biography of Reng4D3 for Stanley to Stanley.
On some early sites in Stanley, he claimed credit for hacking. The website, fkn-pward.com, launched in 2006, when he was in high school, “Fucking Server!” And according to a copy of the site protected by the Internet archive, there was a raw sketch of a penis.
On reneg4d3.com, which he registered the following year, the archives show Stanley explained how he kidnapped a competitive message board. “Admin Access received,” he said in a 2008 post, before he turned 17, describing the operators of the site as “stupid nobes”. “Easy exploitation,” he wrote.
Around that time, a rival video game-chitting website, Rev0lution-Cheats.com, was kidnapped and kidnapped with a message: “This site has been hacked by reneg4d3.com.” Reneg4D3.com was suspended by its internet service provider a few months, according to a screenshot of the site protected by Damenol.
Reuters could not confirm certain aspects of hacking activity, including the identity of the site, Stanley claimed credit for kidnapping or the conversion of the conversion of Rev0lution-Cheats’.
Stanley launched other websites, where he and other participants discussed hacking, video-game cheating or piracy, which included Error33.net and Electonic.net (SIC), Internet Archive record shows.
‘I don’t hack anymore’
At the age of 19, Stanley removed herself from malicious cyber activity in a collected 2010 post on Electonic.net, writing: “I no longer hack in paples, I receive root access in other People’s Computer (SIC), or exploit online websites such as Stickum” – A clear reference to a clear reference to a video streaming service in 2013.
In the same post, he said he was threatened by South Korean gaming company Nexon company to “infiltrate its game software and prosecute some aspects of the game.”
“They didn’t pity on it,” he said.
Reuters could not independently confirm the stolen, computer kidnapping and software tampering, or threating claims. A Nexon spokesman said that the company was unable to give any information about the matter. Payal did not respond to the remarks request.
Discussion on the Electonic.net Forum suggests that Stanley did not leave the world of hacking completely behind. Website – Stanley created like other people – an entraband eBook and “Warez” offered – Internet Slang for Pirated Software.
In December 2014, when he was 23, Stanley posted a footage to a hacking group, a hacking group, a hack of the customer database, which included attacks against Sony Corp’s playstation network. The lizards were unable to reach the former members of the team for Reuters Comments.
Stanley posted footage on her YouTube channel, where she still goes by reneg4D3 nickname and uses a picture of her own as her profile picture with Elon Musk.
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