National Security Advisor Michael Waltz looks at his phone while I prepared for TV interview in the White House on May 1, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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The Messages app that the former National Security Advisor of President Donald Trump was seen during a cabinet meeting last week is temporary suspension services after a reported hack, her parent company said Monday.
“Telemassage is investigating a potential security incident”, a spokesperson for Smarsh, who ruined the app, AWD CNBC in a statement. “In detection we acted quickly to comprehend it and attract an external cyber security company to support our research.”
“From an abundance of caution, all telemassage services are temporarily suspended. All other Smarsh products and services remain fully operational,” said the spokesperson.
The potential hack of telemessage, an app based on Israel that acts as a changed version of the coded messenger signal, was first reported on Sunday by the Tech News after 404 average.
Data stolen by the hacker contains the content of messages sent using telemassage’s versions of Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram and WeChat, according to 404 media.
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The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC’s required comments on the temporary suspension of telemassage services. It has defended the use of signal within the administration and says that the app has been approved for office use and is charged Government Governments.
But Trump had previously discouraged officials in his administration to use signal in the aftermath of the leaking controversy called “Signalgate”, when Waltz accidentally added a journalist to a private discussion about pending the current military army.
“I think we learned: maybe Don’s user signal, okay?” Trump said last month in an interview with the Atlantic.
Trump’s comments were published two days before Wednesday’s cabinet meeting, when Waltz photography was open on his phone with Telessage.
The photo made of Waltz indicated that he communicated with vice -president JD Vance, State Secretary Marco Rubio, director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Special Seve Steve Witkoff.
One day after the cabinet meeting, Trump announced that he will nominate Waltz as the American ambassador of the United Nations.
Rubio, who already acts as State Secretary, acting manager of the US Agency for International Development and Acting Archivist of the United States, will serve as an interim -national security adviser until the position is filled, Trump said.
Part of the Signalgate-Controoverse questions about the messages in that private Thread were automatically deleted, possibly federal record sets.
Telemessage marks itself as a way for government agencies and companies to adhere to those laws by making backup copies of chats.
But 404 media reported last week that telemessage could undermine the end-to-end coding of the signal, which protects the privacy of messages “, the messages can
A signal spokesperson told NBC News on Friday: “We cannot guarantee the privacy or security possession of Unoffeciales versions of Signal.”
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