Senior members of Trump’s National Security Council – including the leading National Security Adviser, Michael Waltz – used Gmail for Government Businesses, The Washington Post referencedciting documents and three anonymous government officials.
The report follows last week’s news that several cabinet officials, including Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, discussed the very sensitive war plans in a signal group conversation that also accidentally included the Atlantic editorial.
According to the Washington Post, a Waltz assistant used the consumer version of Gmail, which has not been cleared of government use, to discuss “extremely technical talks with colleagues in other government services concerning sensitive military positions and powerful weapon systems related to a continuing conflict.
As for the National Security Advisor himself, Waltz had “less sensitive but potentially exploitable information” sent to his personal Gmail account, such as timetables and work documents, officials said.
According to the post, officials described the use of Gmail Personal Accounts by the National Security Advisor as a “problematic handling” of information.
A White House spokesman did not immediately return a request to comment on the exhibition.
Hackers, including those backed by nation -states, often target the personal accounts of government officials with electronic “fishing” attacks to obtain and steal information. In 2019, Microsoft found that Hackers supported by Iran were Targeting Personal Email Accounts linked to the 2020 presidential campaign. Security researchers later found that China is aiming for personal accounts of Biden’s presidential campaign during the 2020 elections.
In 2012, former CIA chief David Petraeus found he used a common Gmail account to share messages with his biographer, with whom he had a case. Petra was shouted the prison after later To maintain inappropriately sensitive information to eight notebooks he gave to the biographer.
