
Berlin: A few days after private information, including phone numbers, email addresses and passwords of senior security advisers, has been found online through data search services and hacker databases Mirror Worries about the new administration increased Wednesday, reported.
It said that mobile phone numbers, email addresses and, in some cases, passwords used by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, director of the National Intelligence Agency Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth can be found through commercial data search services and hacker data dumped online.
Phone numbers and email addresses (mostly current) are used in some cases for Instagram and LinkedIn profiles, Cloud-Storage Service Dropbox, and applications that track user locations.
Gabbard and Waltz’s numbers are reportedly related to accounts related to messaging services WhatsApp and Signal.
Der Spiegel said this gave them access to spyware installed on their devices.
It said that even if foreign agents may be surveillance trio in the incident: a recent signal group chat on the top U.S. strike plan in the Hessey rebels in Yemen on March 15.
Waltz accidentally included a reporter in the chat – Geoffrey Goldberg of Atlantic Magazine.
The magazine released details of the conversation on Wednesday.
Der Spiegel said the three officials did not respond to their request for comment.
The National Security Council said both the Waltz account and password cited by German magazines have been changed in 2019.