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TeleMessage, a modified Signal clone used by US govt. officials, has been hacked


Data pertaining to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Coinbase, and financial service providers like Scotiabank has reportedly been compromised.

Data pertaining to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, crypto exchange Coinbase, and financial service providers like Scotiabank were extracted by the hacker, the report said. The hack revealed that the archived chat logs are not end-to-end encrypted between the modded version of Signal that TeleMessage offers and the ultimate location where it stores the messages, 404 Media reported. He covered North American and European M&A, equity, regulatory news and debt markets at Reuters and Acuris Global, and has also written about travel, tourism, entertainment and books.

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