The White House is investigating after one or more people reached contacts from the personal phone of the Chief of Staff of the White House, Susie Wales, and used information to contact other officials and impersonate her.
According to what was reported by the people, the people had been hacked. Wall Street Magazine I mentioned for the first time Wales phone penetration. CBS news Also confirm Reports.
It is said that infiltrators or infiltrators have arrived at WILES phone calls, including the phone numbers of senior American officials and influential individuals. WSJ stated that those who received phone calls impersonated Wiles used artificial intelligence to impersonate her voice and sent text messages from a number not related to WILES.
White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly will not say, when Techcrunch, if the authorities have determined whether a cloud account associated with the WILES profit has been hacked, or if the Wiles phone is targeted through a more advanced electronic attack, such as the size that includes the use of government degree spyware.
In response, the White House said it “takes cybersecurity to all employees seriously, and this issue is still in the investigation.”
This is the second time that the infiltrators have been targeted. In 2024, Washington Post I mentioned that Iranian infiltrators tried to settle a personal email account in WILES. On Friday, the magazine said, citing sources, that the infiltrators actually succeeded in storming its email and obtaining a file on the Vice President JD Vance, then Trump’s colleague in running.
This is the latest cyber security incident to strike the Trump administration in the months that has passed since he took office.
In March, the former White House National Security Adviser Michael Waltz He added a journalist error For a sign of senior White House officials, including Vance and Wiles, which included discussions on the planned military air strike in Yemen.
Reports later revealed that government officials were using a signaling application called Telemessge, which was designed to keep a copy of the messages to archive the government. Telemessge was After that it was hacked on at least two occasionsDetecting The contents of its own user messages.
