Summary
Private data of top Trump officials, including phone numbers, emails, and, in some cases, passwords of Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard, were found online after a Signal chat scandal involving airstrike planning on Yemen.
Der Spiegel reports that some password details were obtained via hacked data dumps and commercial providers, posing security risks like spyware installation.
The scandal raised concerns of foreign espionage during top-secret planning discussions, further damaging the administration’s credibility.
No system is safe if you’re an idiot. The user is always the flaw.
Technically speaking, Signal is pretty much the best you can get in terms of a commonly available and trivially-installable e2e messaging client. This was not a failure that can be attributed to any technical flaw in Signal, and anyone presenting it as such is either ignorant of pretty much all the technical details, or pushing a bad-faith narrative.