The White House is investigating after one or more people to have access to contacts from White Chief Susie Wiles, and used information to communicate with other top officials and imitate it.
Wiles reportedly told people that her phone was tired. Wall Street Journal magazine first mentioned Wiles’s phone hack. New CBS Is also confirmed The report.
The hacker or hackers are said to have access to WILES telephone contacts, including phone numbers other top US officials and influence of people. The WSJ reports some contacts that have received wiles phone calls, which used AIs to mimic her voice and sent text messages from a number of wiles.
White House spokesman, Anna Kelly, would not say when asked by TechCrunch, if the authorities had determined whether a cloud account associated with the WILES personal device was compromised or if Wiles’ phone was targeted by a more advanced Cyberettack, such as one that includes the use of its spyware.
In response, the White House said that “he is taking the cyberspace very seriously in the cyberspace of all personalities and this issue is still being investigated.”
This is the second time Wiles has targeted hackers. In 2024, The Washington Post They said the Iranian hackers tried to endanger Wiles’ personal account. The magazine reported on Friday, citing sources, the hackers were actually successful in breaking in her email and received a folder [Vice President] JD Vance, then Trump’s partner.
This is the latest cyberspace to tackle Trump’s administration in the months of taking over the duties.
In March, formerly National Security Advisor Michael Waltz Writely added a journalist In a White House officials’ signal group, including Vance and Wiles, which included discussions of scheduled military strike in Yemen.
Reports later revealed that government officials use a signal clone application called Telemessage, designed to maintain a copy of government archive messages. Telecommunication was was then violated at least twicerevealing it Contents of the Private Messages of Users.
