Senior members of the Trump administration’s National Security Council, including its top national security adviser Michael Waltz – using Gmail to conduct government operations, The Washington Post Reportciting documents and three unnamed government officials.
The report comes after news last week, several cabinet-level officials including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Highly sensitive war plans are discussed in signal group chat This also inadvertently included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic.
According to The Waltz Post’s Washington Post, using a consumer version of Gmail (not yet available for government use) discusses “a high level of technical dialogue with other government agencies that involve sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems related to ongoing conflict.”
As for the National Security Advisor himself, Waltz’s “not very sensitive but potentially available information” was sent to his personal Gmail account, such as schedules and working papers, the report said the officials said.
According to the post, officials described how the national security adviser was used as “problematic handling” information.
A White House spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment for the report.
Hackers, including those backed by nation-states, often use phishing attacks to acquire and steal information from government officials. In 2019, Microsoft discovered that Iran-backed hackers were For personal email accounts Related to Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign. Security researchers later found evidence China targets personal accounts Biden presidential campaigners during the 2020 election.
In 2012, former CIA Director David Petraeus was found using a shared Gmail account to share draft messages with his biographer, who had an affair with him. Petraeus is Later, he pleaded guilty and survived jail To retain highly sensitive information in his eight notebooks to the biographer.
