Top officials' data is open online - phones may have been hacked
Contact information such as emails and phone numbers belonging to Donald Trump's top advisers and ministers is open online and may have been hacked by foreign intelligence services, Der Spiegel reports.
Whatsapp profiles and even in some cases Signal accounts have been found belonging to the mobile numbers, the German newspaper writes.
The people affected include National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
By using the open data, foreign intelligence services may have hacked the affected people, Der Spiegel writes.
"It is therefore possible that foreign spies read when Gabbard, Waltz and Hegseth discussed the military strike with others in a chat on the Signal app," the newspaper writes.
Passwords can also be found, including accounts for platforms such as Linkedin and Instagram.
To find the information, Der Spiegel has used personal search engines and hacked customer data that was previously published online.
The US National Security Council states in a comment that Mike Waltz's accounts and passwords mentioned in the article were replaced in 2019.
Voices about the war chat
Atlantic editor-in-chief denies relationship with Waltz
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic and the person who was invited to the war chat, declines to comment on his possible relationship with US national security adviser Mike Waltz in an interview with CBS News.
Waltz has said that he has "never met" Goldberg. At the same time, photos from 2021 have emerged of the two of them at an event at the French ambassador's.
- If you see us together, I assume you see us together, Goldberg says of the photos.
About what happened on March 11, he says the following:
– I received a message request from Michael Waltz. I accepted the message request. That’s what happened [...] what do you expect a reporter to do when you learn interesting information about how an administration is considering military action?
Contact information such as emails and phone numbers belonging to Donald Trump's top advisers and ministers is open online and may have been hacked by foreign intelligence services, Der Spiegel reports.
Whatsapp profiles and even in some cases Signal accounts have been found belonging to the mobile numbers, the German newspaper writes.
The people affected include National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
By using the open data, foreign intelligence services may have hacked the affected people, Der Spiegel writes.
"It is therefore possible that foreign spies read when Gabbard, Waltz and Hegseth discussed the military strike with others in a chat on the Signal app," the newspaper writes.
Passwords can also be found, including accounts for platforms such as Linkedin and Instagram.
To find the information, Der Spiegel has used personal search engines and hacked customer data that was previously published online.
The US National Security Council states in a comment that Mike Waltz's accounts and passwords mentioned in the article were replaced in 2019.
Voices about the war chat
Atlantic editor-in-chief denies relationship with Waltz
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic and the person who was invited to the war chat, declines to comment on his possible relationship with US national security adviser Mike Waltz in an interview with CBS News.
Waltz has said that he has "never met" Goldberg. At the same time, photos from 2021 have emerged of the two of them at an event at the French ambassador's.
- If you see us together, I assume you see us together, Goldberg says of the photos.
About what happened on March 11, he says the following:
– I received a message request from Michael Waltz. I accepted the message request. That’s what happened [...] what do you expect a reporter to do when you learn interesting information about how an administration is considering military action?
Journalist: Mike Waltz’s claims are crazy
US National Security Advisor Waltz was the one who invited Goldberg to the war chat on Signal, and Waltz has said that he has “never met” Goldberg and that he is “the scum of journalism.”
Waltz has also suggested that Goldberg somehow added himself to the chat. That claim is “crazy,” Goldberg says in an interview with CBS News.
– If I’m such an evil person, why am I on Mike Waltz’s phone? Why does he have my phone number?
US National Security Advisor Waltz was the one who invited Goldberg to the war chat on Signal, and Waltz has said that he has “never met” Goldberg and that he is “the scum of journalism.”
Waltz has also suggested that Goldberg somehow added himself to the chat. That claim is “crazy,” Goldberg says in an interview with CBS News.
– If I’m such an evil person, why am I on Mike Waltz’s phone? Why does he have my phone number?
Trump on the chat leak: "The whole thing is a witch hunt"
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "is doing a great job" and "had nothing to do with" the chat leak, says President Donald Trump.
- Look here, look here, the whole thing is a witch hunt, says Trump according to AFP.
Trump reiterates that no classified information was shared in the chat.
Earlier on Wednesday, a US defense source with insight into the operation and other sources told CNN that the information shared by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was top secret at the time he wrote it.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "is doing a great job" and "had nothing to do with" the chat leak, says President Donald Trump.
- Look here, look here, the whole thing is a witch hunt, says Trump according to AFP.
Trump reiterates that no classified information was shared in the chat.
Earlier on Wednesday, a US defense source with insight into the operation and other sources told CNN that the information shared by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was top secret at the time he wrote it.
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