One or more unknown people have accessed the Chief of the White House Staff, Susie Wiles, the White House mobile phone and used her contact file to reach out to other senior officials and identify it, said sources at CBS News on Thursday.
Some recipients have realized that the messages were suspected because SMS and calls came from an unknown issue, indicated sources, and the imitator or imitators asked if the conversations could be continued in another platform, such as Telegram.
Suspicious messages hit the boxes during an unknown period, sources said.
Wiles explained to people her phone had been hacked, sources told CBS News.
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The Wall Street Journal reported on the incident on Thursday and the federal survey was launched in response.
“The White House takes the cybersecurity of all the staff very seriously, and this case continues to be the subject of an investigation,” a spokesman for the White House told CBS News when he questioned the details of the situation.
FBI director Kash Patel said in a shared statement with CBS News: “The FBI takes all the threats against the president, its staff and our cybersecurity with the greatest seriousness; protecting the ability of our officials from our administration to communicate safely to accomplish the president’s mission is an absolute priority.”
