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fourth-year members of the Trump administration ’s National Security Council — let in its top internal security adviser , Michael Waltz — used Gmail to deal authorities business , The Washington Postreported , citing papers and three nameless regime officials .
The report follows last hebdomad ’s news that several cabinet - grade official , including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth , talk over highly sensitive war plans in a Signal radical chatthat also unknowingly included the editor - in - foreman of The Atlantic .
Per The Washington Post , an aide-de-camp to Waltz used the consumer version of Gmail , which is not shed light on for government use , to discuss “ highly technical conversations with colleague at other government activity office involve sensitive military positions and powerful weapons system relate to an ongoing conflict . ”
As for the national security department consultant himself , Waltz had “ less sore , but potentially exploitable information ” send to his personal Gmail report , such as schedules and work document , the report reference the officials as saying .
According to the Post , the officials described the internal security consultant ’s use of goods and services of personal Gmail account as “ problematical handling ” of information .
A spokesperson for the White House did not immediately give back a petition for scuttlebutt on the report .
Hackers , including those backed by state state , oft target the personal Gmail accounts of government officials with phishing attack to obtain and steal selective information . In 2019 , Microsoft found that Iran - backed hacker weretargeting the personal email accountsassociated with Trump ’s 2020 presidential campaign . Security researcher later found grounds thatChina was targeting the personal accountsof Biden presidential effort faculty during the 2020 election .
In 2012 , former CIA chieftain David Petraeus was find to have used a shared Gmail account to divvy up draught messages with his biographer , with whom he was have an affair . Petraeus wasspared jailhouse after later plead guiltyto improperly retaining highly sensitive information in eight notebooks that he pay to the biographer .
