Summary:
Private contact details of the most important security advisers to U.S. President Donald Trump can be found on the internet. DER SPIEGEL 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.
Malcolm Nalcom (veteran of US intelligence) discussed the Signal breach here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MERwAvesX9o
It’s not just conceivable, it’s almost guaranteed that non-US powers were listening in. These people are either incredibly stupid (and have the Dunning-Kruger over-confidence to match) or they are traitors to the US.
I’m sorry, this is a real person’s name?
Either way, the US citizens are the ones who get fucked in the end.
Well if they weren’t listening before, certainly they will now. What the fuck are they going to do to reassure the American people that they aren’t fucking this up? They can’t because they are. That’s ACTUALLY scary.