White House Chief of Staff John Kelly's phone was compromised for months, White House officials said. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Politico: John Kelly's personal cell phone was compromised, White House believes
White House tech support discovered the suspected breach after Kelly turned his phone in to tech support staff this summer.
White House officials believe that chief of staff John Kelly’s personal cellphone was compromised, potentially as long ago as December, according to three U.S. government officials.
The discovery raises concerns that hackers or foreign governments may have had access to data on Kelly’s phone while he was secretary of Homeland Security and after he joined the West Wing.
Tech support staff discovered the suspected breach after Kelly turned his phone in to White House tech support this summer complaining that it wasn’t working or updating software properly.
Kelly told the staffers the phone hadn’t been working properly for months, according to the officials.
White House aides prepared a one-page September memo summarizing the incident, which was circulated throughout the administration.
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Update: John Kelly's phone was reportedly compromised for months (Business Insider).
WNU Editor: He should have handed his phone in when he first learned that there was a problem with it. But cell phones aside, Chief of staff John Kelly has a bigger problem .... Tillerson Summoned to White House Amid Presidential Fury (NBC).
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When you work in the government or private sector at highest you must assume that you're under constant and illegal surveillance and hacking /extortion attempts. And this will only get worse with hard to trace bitcoin payments for personnel data. It's a booming market and not only do the typical governments like Russia,chin a, North Korea and Iran engage in this, but every government pays off now for valuable information. On top add petty opportunists, thieves, script kiddies, mafia, hackers. .they all want in on this already multi billion dollar data theft industry, with China taking the leader role by far. Billions and billions and billions for industrial and governmental espionage.
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