Pentagon warned staffers against using Signal before White House chat leak
by José Olivares from US news | The Guardian on (#6W5RY)
Bulletin sent on 18 March said Russian hackers could access messages as Trump officials now downplay blunder
The Pentagon recently warned its employees against using Signal, the encrypted messaging app, due to a technical vulnerability, an NPR report reveals.
The report comes one day after the Atlantic published a story detailing how top national security officials, including the US vice-president and US defense secretary, had accidentally added a journalist to a Signal group chat, which revealed plans for military strikes in Yemen.
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