Monday, May 05, 2025

Signal Clone Used by Team Trump Officials Was Hacked

A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages, 404 Media has learned.

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TeleMessage, the app that President Trump's former national security adviser Mike Waltz appeared to use to archive his group chats, has suspended all services after hackers claimed to have stolen files from it.

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-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) May 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM

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"... TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the US government to archive messages..."

"The CIA considers Israel its No. 1 counterintelligence threat in the agency's Near East Division, the group that oversees spying across the Middle East, according to current and former officials. Counterintelligence is the art of protecting national secrets from spies. This means the CIA believes that US national secrets are safer from other Middle Eastern governments than from Israel."

Gut arbet, Mike Waltz!

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www.timesofisrael.com

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-05 01:22 PM

Another view ...

Messaging app seen in use by Mike Waltz suspends service after hackers claim breach
www.nbcnews.com

... TeleMessage, the app that President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Mike Waltz, appeared to use to archive his group chats, has suspended all services after hackers claimed to have stolen files from it.

A spokesperson for Smarsh, the company that owns TeleMessage, said Monday that the company "is investigating a potential security incident. Upon detection, we acted quickly to contain it and engaged an external cybersecurity firm to support our investigation."

"Out of an abundance of caution, all TeleMessage services have been temporarily suspended," the spokesperson said. ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-05 08:47 PM

OK, my first question is, and has remained ...

Why are Pres Trump's top officials using these insecure apps?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-05 08:49 PM

Why are Pres Trump's top officials using these insecure apps?
#3 | Posted by LampLighter

Maybe he's trying to raise their self-esteem.

#4 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-05-05 10:18 PM

Why are Pres Trump's top officials using these insecure apps?
#3 | Posted by LampLighter

You and I know the answer. You and I also know the only reason you're asking the question is in hopes a cultist MAGAt might provide their own answer.

#5 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-05-05 11:38 PM

The leadership members of our national defense and security organs might as well be shouting out the window at each other, barking out government secrets left, right and center...

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2025-05-06 09:42 AM

Donald Trump learned in Round 1 that someone is always listening to adversaries of the US. Consequently, they were caught being in direct communication with their friends and allies.

So, in Round 2 what better way to share information with our adversaries, their "friends", than in an open and hackable communication channel?

#7 | Posted by Hickory at 2025-05-06 10:38 AM

Who came up with that access and vulnerability? Give another country like Israel etc the ability to archive our classified messages. Why are they using any foreign national app?

#8 | Posted by Robson at 2025-05-06 11:22 AM

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