TL;DR:

Reporters at Der Spiegel claim to have found phone numbers, email addresses, and social media login credentials for multiple top White House officials, including National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

They also claim to have “revealed an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels in Washington.” Though the article does not divulge details.

Edit: Reading comprehension failure on my part.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    They also claim to have “revealed an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels in Washington.” Though the article does not divulge details.

    Not really. Context:

    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.

    They are referring to this reporting as having “revealed an additional grave, previously unknown security breach”.

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    6 days ago

    So if you were a journalist and ‘stumbled’ upon this data, which would it be: expose the leak as a scandal, or compromise the accounts and milk them for continuous leads and inside info?