TeleMessage Goes Dark After Trump Adviser Photo Fallout

Hacker Breaches Government-Approved Messaging App Used by Top Trump Officials Chris Riotta (@chrisriotta) • May 5, 2025

A Signal clone messaging app apparently being used by top advisers to U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly went dark Monday following a reported hacking incident.

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TeleMessage, a government-approved encrypted messaging platform used to archive communications for federal compliance, confirmed the incident and said it temporarily suspended messaging services "out of an abundance of caution." The Israeli technology company came under scrutiny last week after a Reuters journalist photographed then-National Security Advisor Mike Waltz using the app during a White House cabinet meeting.

The app's usage raises new questions over whether foreign adversaries or other threat actors ...