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TeleMessage, a maker of modified versions of apps like Signal,

telegram, and WhatsApp has apparently been hacked, leaking some user messages, contact info, and more.

Now, until recently, I'm not sure this would have been a story we would have done, as I'd

never heard of TeleMessage, except that now, quoting TechCrunch, telemessage came into the spotlight last week after it was reported that former U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Walts was using TeleMessage's modified version of signal.

Israel-based telemessage owned by Smarsh offers its clients a way to archive messages, including voice notes from encrypted apps.

The messages of cabinet members and waltz were not compromised, 404 media said, but the hacked data contained contents of messages.

Contact information of government officials, backend login credentials for telemessage, and more.

Data pertaining to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, crypto exchange, Coinbase, and financial service providers like

Scotia Bank were extracted by the hacker, the report said.

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 404 media reported.

Smarch, Signal, U.S. Customs, and Border Protection, Coinbase, and Scotia Bank did not immediately

return requests for comment, end quote. And quoting 404 media, the hack shows that an app gathering

messages of the highest ranking officials in the government. Waltz's chats on the app include

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