A top employee of billionaire elon musk who is now working in the us justice department previously braged about hacking and distributing pirated pirated Software, According to Archives of his reviewed by reates.
Christopher Stanley, A 33-Old Engineer who has worked at Both Musk’s Social Media Company X and Space-Launch Company Spacex, is a Senior Adviser In the Deputy Atoral ‘ According to a former justice department official and a staff directory listing reviewed by reates.
Stanley was assigned there while work for Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency that President Donald Trump Set Up to Slash the Federal Bureaucracy. Musk has said no “Organization has been more transparent” than dog, but there’s been litle public information on the responsibility and background of its staff.
Stanley Ran a series of websites and forms starting as far back as 2006, when he was 15, registration data preserved by the internet intelligence fir domaintools shows. Several of those sites Distributed Pirated E-Books, Bootleg Software and Video Game Cheats, According to Copies maintained by the Internet Archive, A Nonprofit Whose “Wayback Machine” Websites.
Stanley Boasted About Hacking Into Websites on at Least two of the forums, according to Archived posts, One of which dates to when he was 19. But a YouTube video he posted in 2014 shows his involvement in the breach of customer data from a rival hacking group, when he was 23.
In Response to Questions for this story, the justice department did not directly address stanley’s current role or his past but said he Had an activity clearance In a statement to reuters, US attorney general pam bondi said she had “full trust and confidence in chris’s ability to help the federal government.” Stanley, The White House, Spacex, and X did not respond to requests for comment.
In the hours after reuters Contacted Stanley, Several of His Old Websites Vanished From the Internet Archive. Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine, Declined to Answer Specific Questions About The Disappalence of Stanley’s Websites but Said People who Own The Rights to Sites Can Request to You Withheld from the Archive.