White House Chief of Staff Impersonation Probe

So get this, it sounds like someone's been trying to act like the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles. Yeah, pretty wild, right? According to the Wall Street Journal, which got this info from folks in the know, federal authorities here in the U.S. are looking into it. Susie apparently told some people she knows that her personal phone contacts got hacked. That's how this impersonator got their hands on private phone numbers. It wasn't her government phone, thankfully, but still.

The Journal also reported that lately, people like senators, governors, big shot business execs here in the States, and other important folks have been getting calls and messages from someone pretending to be Susie. Crazy, huh? The White House didn't say anything when asked about it, which, idk, isn't super surprising.

The FBI director, Kash Patel, put out a statement saying they take this stuff super seriously, you know, threats against the president, his staff, all that. Keeping their communication safe so they can do their job is a big deal for them. He said that on Friday.

This isn't the only time the White House has had issues with keeping info safe. Remember that hack on the app Mike Waltz, who used to be Trump's national security adviser, used? Reuters reported that a hacker got into that service earlier this month and snatched messages from a bunch of American officials. And late last year, a White House official mentioned that the U.S. thinks China was behind this big cyber spying thing called Salt Typhoon. They think China was recording phone calls from really, really important American political figures.

Since Susie Wiles is a super important person to President Donald Trump and basically helps keep the whole White House running, anything on her personal phone would be a massive deal for foreign spy agencies and other folks who aren't exactly friendly. It seems hackers have gone after Susie before too. That was back at the end of Trump's 2024 campaign. At that time, hackers that U.S. authorities think were working for Iran apparently tried to get journalists and a political operative to share messages sent to and from Susie. Some of those messages actually ended up being published.