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Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 4 days ago

TeleMessage, a modified Signal clone used by US government officials, has been hacked

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TeleMessage, a modified Signal clone used by US government officials, has been hacked

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Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 4 days ago

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TeleMessage, a modified Signal clone used by US government officials, has been hacked | TechCrunch

Data pertaining to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Coinbase, and financial service providers like Scotiabank has reportedly been compromised.

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The hack revealed that the archived chat logs are not end-to-end encrypted between the modded version of Signal that TeleMessage offers and the ultimate location where it stores the messages

lol wasn’t that supposed to be the whole point, what are they even doing

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