US officials were associated with accounts on WhatsApp and Signal social networks, increasing the risk of spying, the German weekly report said.
Private data of the main security representatives of US President Donald Trump’s administration are accessible on the Internet, the German weekly Der Spiegel said on Wednesday. These are mobile phone numbers, email addresses, and in some cases, the slogans used by the White House Advisor for National Security Mike Waltz, the head of the US secret service Tulsi Gabbard and Defense Minister Pete Hegseth. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
According to the German weekly, the data can be found using commercial data search services and hacker databases.
Telephone numbers and mail addresses – mostly up -to -date – in some cases, owners used them for Instagram and LinkedIn social network profiles, Dropbox cloud storage service and user -tracking applications. Gabbard and Waltza numbers were reportedly linked to WhatsApp and Signal messages, writes AFP. According to Der Spiegel, spying software were installed on their devices.
Agents could spy on the group
The German weekly stated that it was even possible that foreign agents spied up a chat group associated with a recent incident when Waltz accidentally added the editor -in -chief of The Atlantic Goldberg.
The Atlantic decided to publish the entire content of this communication on Wednesday: it includes reports of the exact time of attacks and types of aircraft used. According to Goldberg, reports were also revealed by the disrespectful notes of US officials about European allies.
Waltz, Hegseth and Gabbard have not yet commented on the claims of the weekly Der Spiegel. The National Security Council said that all the Waltza accounts, which the German weekly mentioned, were changed in 2019, writes AFP.
