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Data Data Trump Data: The head of Pentagon Hegsset has a mail on Russian Mail.ru (photo)

To spread: The Signal Secret Signal Scandal has received an unexpected continuation-the personal data of the US Presidential Top advisers got into the network. It was the easiest to obtain confidential information of the Secretary of Defense Peter Hegsset. The problems with the incident in the Signal Secret Chat, where the high -ranking officials of the Donald Trump administration discussed a blow to Yemen, were much more serious.

Mobile phone numbers, e -mail addresses and even passwords by US President's most important advisers can be found on the Internet, Der Spiegel said. Investigators found out that the data of the National Security Advisor Mike Volt, US Intelligence Head Tulsi Gabbard and Defense Minister Pete Hegset were leaking. The latter has a registered mail on Russian domain Mail. ru. Journal researchers have easily received a mobile phone number and Heset's e -mail address.

They used a commercial contact data supplier used by companies for sales, marketing and recruitment. The supplier was sent to the Hegsset profile on LinkedIn's social network. According to the mobile phone number, he was able to find his account at WhatsApp, which Heset has apparently deleted. Gabbard was more careful than two of her colleagues. In commercial search engines contacts, the information heads of intelligence were blocked.

The Finnish researcher of misinformation Pekka Callionima drew attention to the investigation and wrote on the social network X: "My question: why in Pete Hegsset is a Russian e -mail address?" He also gave the screenshot with the address of the Pentagon head. Some of the users noted that in principle, anyone can register such an address. It was later revealed that Heseet's e -mail was tied to the Russian phone number, which begins at +7 and Proton Mail.

This phone number could be indicated during registration in the Russian social network "VKontakte". The journalist and co -founder of the Democratic ax party Anton Shvets reacted to the investigation and asked if US officials had access to the VK. C. Video service, Sberbanka card and an account in Russian Wildberries. "It turned out that the data of the highest executives of the United States are in commercial bases, and their passwords in the databases of drains and breakage.

Well, it is, you can believe that there is a lot of you. And your passwords too. If a person there in the civil service did not occupy special positions, there may be much about it. Interesting. Recall that an investigation into a secret chat to Signal The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg is engaged in the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, billionaire Ilon Musk. Michael Volz claimed that Goldberg accidentally got into this chat. The official signed him in contacts with another's name.