The data included names and contacts of government officials, as well as usernames and passwords for the app’s backend.

“I would say the whole process took about 15-20 minutes,” the hacker told the publication. “It wasn’t much effort at all.”

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    8 hours ago

    Actually, the Signal protocol turned out to be fatally flawed in that, if you added the editor of a major publication to your group chat, all of your conversations would end up on the news the next day. Honestly a pretty egregious vulnerability.