404 Media reported Sunday that a hacker had accessed sensitive internal materials stored in TeleMessage in as little as 20 minutes of effort, including contents tied to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
TeleMessage surged into public attention last week when a Reuters photograph appeared to show then-National Security Advisor Mike Waltz using the modified Signal clone during a cabinet meeting to chat with top officials, including Tulsi Gabbard and Marco Rubio.
Smarsh, the Oregon-based owner of TeleMessage, said Monday it was “investigating a potential security incident” and suspended its services out of an abundance of caution. DHS told Reuters that CBP “immediately disabled TeleMessage as a precautionary measure.”
Legal requirements for agencies to archive internal communications came to the forefront of staff discussions in the days following bombshell reporting from The Atlantic’s top editor that showed he was inadvertently added to a Signal group with top government officials discussing airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen.
Signal screenshots published by The Atlantic showed Waltz initially set messages to auto-delete after one week before later setting them to delete after four weeks. It triggered a lawsuit that argued the exchange involved official agency communications that require full preservation.
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