Someone Posing as White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Being Investigated
Okay, so check this out. The Wall Street Journal dropped a report saying federal authorities are looking into someone pretending to be Susie Wiles, you know, the White House Chief of Staff. People in the know told the Journal that Susie apparently mentioned to her friends that some folks in her phone contacts got messed with because her cellphone was hacked. This let the fake Susie get access to private phone numbers, which is kinda wild, right? Good news is, this only happened with her personal phone, not her work one, thankfully.
Apparently, over the past few weeks, a bunch of important people like senators, governors, big business leaders, and others were getting calls and texts from someone claiming to be Susie. Imagine that! The White House and the FBI didn't say anything about it right away when asked.
Honestly, the White House has had a rough time with keeping information safe lately. Remember that hacker who got into the messaging service used by Mike Waltz, who used to be Trump's national security advisor? Reuters reported just recently that this hacker swiped messages from tons of U.S. officials. Also, late last year, a White House official said they think China had this huge cyber campaign called Salt Typhoon where they targeted and recorded calls from some really important American politicians. That's pretty intense.
Since Susie is, like, a major player for Trump and super important to the White House's whole operation, anything on her personal phone would be super interesting to foreign spy agencies and other folks who aren't exactly friendly. It seems like hackers have tried to go after Susie before too. During the last few months of Trump's 2024 campaign, hackers that U.S. authorities think were working for Iran apparently reached out to reporters and a political operative with messages they said were from Susie. Some of those even ended up getting published. It makes you wonder who else could be trying to get this kind of info, doesn't it?
