Showing posts with label Hack. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 27, 2025

It could have been a Hack - Definitely a major Screw-up

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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