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Sead Fadilpašić

TeleMessage, the Signal-esque app used by the Trump administration, has been hacked

A stylized depiction of a padlocked WiFi symbol sitting in the centre of an interlocking vault.

  • Hacker claims they broke into messaging service TeleMessage
  • TeleMessage is a clone of Signal, a popular privacy-oriented chat app used by the likes of JD Vance
  • Hacker stole some files from the platform, but no US government data was taken
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