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Israeli App on Mike Waltz’s Phone Exposed User’s Passwords | The Signal Archive app TeleMessage exposed user emails and passwords, due to a misconfigured “secure” portal on its website.


The Signal Archive app TeleMessage exposed user emails and passwords, due to a misconfigured “secure” portal on its website.

To confirm the tip, Drop Site used open-source tools to recreate a list of URLs inadvertently left public over the past few years that included exposed credentials. Since TeleMessage was used on an iPhone belonging to Mike Waltz, and likely other high level White House officials, the revelation raises further questions about why an app with connections to Israeli intelligence seems designed to expose users to the risk of a data breach. The hackers who contacted 404 Media claimed it took them less than half an hour to breach the digital walls of the company and extract extremely sensitive internal data, including messages belonging to the DC Metropolitan Police Department and US Customs and Border Patrol.

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