India, Feb. 5 -- A 25-year-old engineer, Marko Elez, who previously worked for two of Elon Musk's companies, has direct access to US Treasury Department systems that handle nearly all government payments, WIRED reported.

The report added that, according to two sources, Elez's privileges include the ability to write code, not just read, on two of the US government's most sensitive systems - the Payment Automation Manager and Secure Payment System at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS).

These systems, housed on a secure mainframe, manage government payments that together represent more than a fifth of the US economy.

While reports indicate that Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force has "read-only" access to Trea...