Signal Clone Used by Team Trump Officials Was Hacked

Monday, May 05, 2025

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.

Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 08:32 PM | 8 COMMENTS | permalink

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!

Source:

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. ...