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2025-03-28 Cyber
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Passwords, other info from top Trump officials in Signal leak found floating online; lefty NPR head on Signal board; what happened to Waltz’s Venmo security?
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Incompetence by the permanent staff or Deep State malice? [IsraelTimes] Der Spiegel digs up phone numbers, email addresses and more belonging to national security adviser Michael Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and intel chief Tulsi Gabbard
The private contact information of three senior Trump administration officials has been found available online by a German newspaper, adding to concerns about the security of sensitive information after plans for a strike in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
were shared over a commercial message app and inadvertently shared with a journalist.
In a Wednesday report, Der Spiegel said it was able to retrieve cell phone numbers, email addresses, and some passwords of US national security adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, all of whom have come under fire for their roles in the Yemen leak.
The information was found using commercial data-search services and information from hackers posted online. Sales, marketing and recruitment companies use such services to obtain data.
Der Spiegel assessed that most of the accounts and numbers were likely still being used by the officials, at least until recently.
The paper did not publish any of the information but gave detailed descriptions of why they appeared to be authentic, including profile photos. It also did not try to use any of the passwords.
Among the passwords were those for email accounts and other services such as Instagram, LinkedIn profiles, cloud-storage service Dropbox, and apps that can track a user’s location.
Hegseth’s cell phone number and email address were "particularly easy" to find, with the email address showing up in over 20 data leaks, in some cases along with the password.
The number was associated with a WhatsApp account that had apparently been recently deleted, the report said.
The same provider was able to come up with Waltz’s phone number which was reportedly available on a people search engine that acts like an online phone directory. Der Spiegel also found several passwords to Waltz’s email address.
Gabbard had apparently blocked her contact details on commercial search engines, the report said, but the information was found in data leaks dumped by hackers.
The Gabbard and Waltz numbers were tied to accounts on the messaging services WhatsApp and Signal, which Der Spiegel said made them possible targets for spyware.
The US Department of Defense did not respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for the NSC said Waltz’s passwords and accounts had been changed before he joined Congress in 2019.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Gabbard’s information was leaked nearly 10 years ago and she has not used those accounts for several years and has frequently changed her passwords.
Waltz and Hegseth are both at the center of a swirling scandal that has engulfed Washington this week surrounding a discussion held over encrypted commercial messaging service Signal about plans to attack Yemen’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
 ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels. The use of the chat, which may have broken secrecy laws and other protocols, came to light after Waltz accidentally added Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the group, which also included Gabbard, Vice President J.D. Vance and other brass hats.
The conversations discussed schedules, weapons, and aircraft that were used on March 15 as the US launched a military campaign against the Iran-backed group.
The chat about attacks on Iran-backed Houthi rebels involved some of the administration’s most bigwigs, including Hegseth, Waltz, and Gabbard.
Hegseth and Gabbard have claimed that no classified or sensitive materials were discussed, while US President Donald Trump
...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
has called the incident a "glitch."
US officials are generally instructed to discuss sensitive matters in a specially protected space called a SCIF, due to spying concerns. While Signal contains encryption, it is open to all, including hackers, unlike most US government systems.
The Houthi rebels, who have controlled much of Yemen for more than a decade, are part of the "axis of resistance" of pro-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
groups staunchly opposed to Israel and the United States.
| An interesting tweet linked by PJ Media’s Matt Margolis, pointing to the possibility of Deep State malice: |
According to Wikipedia, “From 2022 to 2023, Maher was a member of the U.S. State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board, an expert panel established in 2011 by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to advise U.S. officials.”
| A point MrlMargolis neglected to mention from that Wikipedia article: “As of 2023, she chairs the board of directors of the Signal Foundation.“ |
The conflicts of interest here are staggering. We have someone who runs a supposedly "neutral" public broadcasting network while simultaneously serving on the board of a secure communications platform used for sensitive government operations.
Timing is everything, and it's worth noting that this security breach controversy exploded right around the same time Maher was making waves with her controversial congressional testimony about media bias. Coincidence? Maybe. But in Washington, coincidences are about as rare as honest Democrats.
Social media users are already connecting these dots, asking why mainstream media isn't giving this story the attention it deserves. Could it be because it exposes the uncomfortably close relationship between left-wing media executives, technology platforms, and government operations?
While I'm not ready to declare that there is any direct connection between Maher serving on the board of directors and the current Signal breach — I still believe a rogue staffer is the most likely culprit — at the very least these connections raise serious questions about how and why the Biden administration approved the app over other options.
The deeper this story goes, the more it looks less like a simple security breach and more like a symptom of a much larger problem: the incestuous relationship between Big Tech, liberal media, and government operations. It's time for Congress to start asking some tough questions.
How Did This Happen? Mike Waltz Exposed Hundreds of Contacts After Leaving Venmo Public
[GatewayPundit] National Security Advisor Mike Waltz left his Venmo account wide open to the public until Wednesday afternoon, exposing hundreds of personal and professional contacts to potential exploitation.
A so-called “analysis” by the leftist tech outlet WIRED revealed that the account, listed under “Michael Waltz” with a profile photo of the man himself, connected to names tied to the Trump administration’s inner circle—names like Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff, and Walker Barrett, a National Security Council staffer.
The account exposed a 328-person network, including military officials, political strategists, prominent journalists, and even other members of the Trump administration’s inner circle.
After WIRED began digging, both Waltz and Trump campaign powerhouse Susie Wiles quickly made their Venmo accounts private.
According to the news outlet:
A WIRED review of public data exposed on Venmo accounts associated with senior administration officials suggests that the Signal group chat was not an isolated mistake, but part of a broader pattern of what national security experts describe as reckless behavior by some of the most powerful people in the US government.
The Venmo account under Waltz’s name includes a 328-person friend list. Among them are accounts sharing the names of people closely associated with Waltz, such as Barrett, formerly Waltz’s deputy chief of staff when Waltz was a member of the House of Representatives, and Micah Thomas Ketchel, former chief of staff to Waltz and currently a senior adviser to Waltz and President Donald Trump.
Other accounts carry the names of a wide range of media figures, from on-air personalities like Bret Baier and Brian Kilmeade of Fox News and Brianna Keilar and Kristen Holmes of CNN to a cable news producer, a prominent national security reporter, local news anchors, documentarians, and noted conspiracy theorist Ivan Raiklin, who calls himself the “the secretary of retribution” and once created a deep state target list. (Fox News declined to comment; CNN did not respond to a request for comment.)
Many of the accounts appear to belong to local and national politicians and political operatives ranging from US representative Dan Crenshaw of Texas to a former mayor of Deltona, Florida, as well as venture capitalists, defense industry entrepreneurs, and executives like Christian Brose, the president of defense tech giant Anduril. (Crenshaw’s office and Anduril did not respond to requests for comment.)
One of the most notable appears to belong to Wiles, one of Trump’s most trusted political advisers. That account’s 182-person friend list includes accounts sharing the names of influential figures like Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, and Hope Hicks, Trump’s former White House communications director.
While none of the Venmo transactions for the account listed for Waltz, Wiles, or Barrett were publicly visible, it appears that none of them had opted out of sharing their contact list, allowing their friend lists to remain visible to the public. After WIRED reached out to the White House for comment, both Waltz and Wiles appeared to change their Venmo privacy settings to hide their friend lists.
And if privacy was such a concern, where were the safeguards from the government itself? Shouldn’t a sitting national security adviser have received explicit instructions from federal cybersecurity experts on how to lock down their digital footprint?
When Joe Biden was found on Venmo in 2021, the media downplayed it. When Mike Waltz is found, it’s suddenly a five-alarm fire. Why the double standard? 
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