Posted on 03/26/2025 3:27:16 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
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.
It remains unclear, however, whether this extremely problematic chat was conducted using Signal accounts linked to the private telephone numbers of the officials involved. Tulsi Gabbard has declined to comment. DER SPIEGEL reporting has demonstrated, though, that privately used and publicly accessible telephone numbers belonging to her and Waltz are, in fact, linked to Signal accounts....
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I wonder which one uses “cat” as a password.
A deep state mole is working from within.
war pigs hard at work
So?
My favorite is “password.”
I admit that for one of the financial news services I subscribe to, for over twenty years my password has been “welcome.” For sentimental reason I’ll never change it.
They’re using Social Engineering Hacking
This is why Trump need to continue firing those 25,000 Joe Peto embeds who were hired to resist and obstruct the Trump administration as they admitted to the “media” after the election. He needs to continue to fight to get rid of them. The DemonRATS are now on the verge of stealing a second election.
Mole, shmole.
Did a mole instruct these nitwits not to exercise basic communications security precautions?
In the financial services industry, we have to get certifications for online security courses every few months.
Maybe he needs to fire 250,000, not just 25,000.
But that wouldn’t excuse Pete Hegseth for not deactivating social apps, especially since some are linked to Signal.
Possibly. My IT guy used to set up all my passwords for me. We need to find out who was in charge of these accounts. My guess is that it's the same person who added Goldberg to Waltz's phone.
Utterly BS kraut article. The encryption systems are way beyond personal search engines. The passwords don’t even last a minute for sign on. Stupid trolling article by the LEFTIST
Der Speigel.
In the US there is tons of personal SPI data in the public domain and many people are totally oblivious to it. We need much stronger privacy laws (IMO). Take that along with hacked data in the dark web domain, which is what these german hacks, did and you end up with a big exposure. The staff involved in bringing our top levels of officials are (should be)responsible for doing basic scan in the public domain looking for these exposures. These services are readily available in the commercial space. But I wonder how often these hack journalist look for these in the liberal admins.
You might also want to know why any top intelligence officer would still have active WhatsApp, LinkedIn, and Teams accounts.
Meh. Two days ago, the Goldberg report (equally leftist) was dismissed as BS too.
Inside job or no, the various officials did not consult with online security experts when they took office.
Or if they did, they ignored the advice. The Spiegel story isn’t based on super-duper cyber-sleuthing, the likes of which all our foreign adversaries deploy. This was just Grade-Z sloppiness.
I use “Bosco” for everything. My friend George Costanza suggested that. And so far, so good.
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