The private data of top security advisers to US President Donald Trump can be accessed online, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Wednesday, adding to the fallout from the officials’ use of a Signal group chat to plan airstrikes on Yemen.
Mobile phone numbers, email addresses and in some cases passwords used by national security adviser Mike Waltz, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, and director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard can be found via commercial data-search services and hacked data dumped online, it reported. It is not clear in all cases how recent the details are. (The Guardian)
Now, I know I'm not the sharpest bulb in the political lighthouse - I've never even stayed at a Holiday Inn Express! (for those old enough to remember the reference) - but even I know if you're going to communicate with others in this day and age, you need to be (a) clear and concise in your words, (b) you need to make sure no one not-in-the-loop is listening in and (c) that your comms are as secure as possible.
Somewhere, someone missed the memo and, despite the Conservative Media Wurlitzer's protestations that this is a nothing-burger of a story, the fact still remains that senior Trump officials discussed some very secret things over a public messaging app. Are we that bankrupt as a country we can't afford top-end comms of this nature?
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