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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Private data of Trump officials in Signal scandal accessible online: report

he logos of social media applications, WeChat, Twitter, MeWe, Telegram, Signal, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp is displayed on the screen of an iPhone
Email addresses and passwords used by US national security officials involved in this week’s Signal group chat scandal have been discovered online by German magazine Der Spiegel. Photograph: Chesnot/Getty Images

The private data of top security advisers to US President Donald Trump can be accessed online, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Wednesday, adding to the fallout from the officials’ use of a Signal group chat to plan airstrikes on Yemen.

Mobile phone numbers, email addresses and in some cases passwords used by national security adviser Mike Waltz, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, and director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard can be found via commercial data-search services and hacked data dumped online, it reported. It is not clear in all cases how recent the details are.

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