Reuters reports that the person who hacked TeleMessage, the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz, acquired messages from more officials than was previously reported. Smarsh, the company that owns TeleMessage, suspended service after the hack was revealed.
Unlike Signal, which automatically deletes messages after whatever timeframe is set by the user or group, the TeleMessage clone stores messages.
Reuters identified more than 60 unique government users of the messaging platform TeleMessage in a cache of leaked data provided by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a U.S. nonprofit with the stated mission is to archive hacked and leaked documents in the public interest. The trove included material from disaster responders, customs officials, several U.S. diplomatic staffers, at least one White House staffer and members of the Secret Service. The messages reviewed by Reuters covered a roughly daylong period of time ending on May 4, and many of them were fragmentary.
… Based on its limited review, Reuters uncovered nothing that seemed clearly sensitive and did not uncover chats by Waltz or other cabinet officials. Some chats did seem to bear on the travel plans of senior government officials. One Signal group, “POTUS | ROME-VATICAN | PRESS GC,” appeared to pertain to the logistics of an event at the Vatican. Another appeared to discuss U.S. officials’ trip to Jordan.
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