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Anyone who leaves a message in full view to announce they've accessed the system isn't the real danger. If whoever this is could get in, so can the real experts from China, Russia, North Korea, etc. There's no way Musk's DOGE people, in their destructive haste, have taken any care over security. It's even likely his team of punchable kids put in their own backdoors, thinking they were being clever. If and when foreign adversaries find their way in through those, they're not putting up an announcement.
Yeah
If it were me as a hacker and I wanted to cause real damage:
“The US Federal Reserve is now deleted, US currency to be backed by bitcoin”
Or
“We have found evidence Fort Knox contains no gold. Biggest fraud in history”
Or
“US military contracts cancelled due to extreme overpayment”