Private Data, Passwords of Senior US Security Officials Found Online
"Private contact details of the most important security advisers to U.S. President Donald Trump can be found on the internet. DER SPIEGEL (Der Spiegel is a weekly news magazine published in Hamburg since 1947. It is known for its investigative journalism and political scandals) reporters were able to find mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to the top officials.To do so, the reporters used commercial people search engines along with hacked customer data that has been published on the web. Those affected by the leaks include National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use, with some of them linked to profiles on social media platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn. They were used to create Dropbox accounts and profiles in apps that track running data. There are also WhatsApp profiles for the respective phone numbers and even Signal accounts in some cases.
As such, the reporting has revealed an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels in Washington. Hostile intelligence services could use this publicly available data to hack the communications of those affected by installing spyware on their devices.
It is thus conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group in which Gabbard, Waltz and Hegseth discussed a military strike."
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7 comments:
Damn, what next.
Biden is the one who implemented Signal. "The CISA guidance specifically cited that government officials should download "end-to-end encrypted communications" platforms to their cellphones and computers, specifically citing Signal as an app to download to comply with the best practices." They even put out a manual. It's too bad that the new heads of our cyber security did not investigate on their own.
You can't ever believe and take as gospel anything democrats have done. The President relied on his team to ensure his new house was in order. It failed here. Cyber intel failed him.
It won’t fail again
The mission was carried out and was a success. That's what we should be talking about.
If a drunk gets in a car and drives home without killing anyone, what harm was done? None.
So let everyone have their freak out about highly sensitive war plans being transmitted to our enemies and endangering our troops. At the end of the day, we won and THAT'S what counts the most.
What's important to me is that they beef up cyber security so that this never happens again. They trusted Signal as it was in place, put there by Biden's administration. They trusted the system that turned out to be vulnerable. They trusted something from the former corrupt Biden administration.
"Government officials have used Signal for organizational correspondence, such as scheduling sensitive meetings, but in the Biden administration, people who had permission to download it on their White House-issued phones were instructed to use the app sparingly, according to a former national security official who served in the administration.
The official, who requested anonymity to speak about methods used to share sensitive information, said Signal was most commonly used to notify someone that they should check for a classified message sent through other means."
"The National Security Agency sent out an operational security special bulletin to its employees in February 2025 warning them of vulnerabilities in using the encrypted messaging application Signal, according to internal NSA documents obtained by CBS News."
"The bulletin also underscored to NSA employees that third-party messaging applications such as Signal and Whatsapp are permitted for certain "unclassified accountability/recall exercises" but not for communicating more sensitive information.
NSA employees were also warned to not send "anything compromising over any social media or Internet-based tool or application," and to not "establish connections with people you do not know."
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