Massive security breach as reporter joined Trump's top officials in Signal app
President Donald Trump, left, and Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth. Photo: AP
President Donald Trump, left, and Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth. Photo: AP
Michael Martina
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Top Trump administration officials, including US vice-president JD Vance and secretary of defence Pete Hegseth, mistakenly included a journalist in a top secret messaging group discussing strikes against Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis in a massive security breach.
The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg said in a report yesterday that he was inadvertently invited on March 13 to an encrypted chat group on the Signal messaging app called the “Houthi PC small group”.