Top Trump Officials’ Passwords and Personal Phone Numbers Discovered Online
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Summary
The ‘SignalGate’ controversy arose after senior Trump administration officials mistakenly included The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg in a secret group chat about potential attacks in Yemen.
The incident has highlighted the vulnerability of the Venmo accounts of White House officials, and highlighted poor security practices generally.
Also this week, reports have emerged that sensitive personal data belonging to senior Trump administration security officials is easily discoverable online.
This data includes mobile phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords, which are linked to individuals’ Dropbox, Microsoft Teams, Signal and WhatsApp accounts.
In other news, following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar, reports have emerged of the difficulties in getting information out of the country, due to long-standing and widespread internet restrictions.
Finally, the UK police are to increase their use of live face recognition cameras, which pose significant privacy concerns.
