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TeleMessage app used by Mike Waltz suspends service over suspected hack

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Mike Waltz checks his phone during a cabinet meeting at the White House last week. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

The communications app used by Mike Waltz, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, says it is temporarily suspending services following a reported hack that exposed some of its potentially sensitive messages.

Oregon-based Smarsh, which runs the TeleMessage app, said in an email to Reuters that it was “investigating a potential security incident” and was suspending all its services “out of an abundance of caution”.

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