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"SCOOP: WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji." #SignalGate wired.com/story/even-more-venm…

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2/ "The officials in question include Dan Katz, chief of staff at the US Treasury; Joe Kent, President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of the National Counterterrorism Center; and Mike Needham, counselor and chief of staff to the secretary of State. All three were participants in the “Houthi PC small group” chat..." #SignalGate
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3/ "Katz was named in it as a point of contact by Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary; Kent by Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, to whom Kent serves as acting chief of staff; and Needham by Marco Rubio, the secretary of State."
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4/ "A fourth official with an open Venmo account—Brian McCormack, a senior staffer on the National Security Council—also appears to have been in the chat, in which a user with the screen name “Brian” lists McCormack as a point of contact for the NSC. His account went private after WIRED reached out to the NSC for comment."
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5/ "Morgan Ortagus, a former Fox News [sic] personality and deputy to Steve Witkoff—Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, who was himself in the chat—also appears to have left Venmo data exposed."

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6/ "McCormack and the accounts that appear to belong to Katz and Ortagus, for example, left not only their contact lists publicly visible, but also their transactions, which are as recent as last fall. These records reveal specific information like a 2018 payment from Katz with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji and how much he paid an overnight cat sitter in 2019."
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7/ "They also reveal McCormack’s contributions to what appears to be a get together for veterans of the Bush-Cheney administration (“Cheney team reunion! Thank you!!”), who has reimbursed Ortagus for picnic expenses, and Kent’s connection to noted conspiracy theorist Ivan Raiklin, who calls himself the “the secretary of retribution” and once created a deep state target list."
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8/ "...according to Venmo’s privacy policy, unless users proactively change their privacy settings, their network remains visible to anyone. That means that even when a user sets their account to private, their friends list remains visible unless they take an additional step. As of publication, hiding your connections requires navigating to Settings > Privacy > Friends List and selecting Private."

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9/ Here's the original post of yesterday's fiasco:

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I’m running out of 🤦🏻‍♀️ emojis 1/... “SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED as…
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Just as well the US is being run by the technologically savvy! Oh, wait…😱
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