The inside story of the Telemessage saga, and how you can view the data

stapp · Aug 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM

On Saturday at DEF CON, security boffin Micah Lee explained just how he hacked into TeleMessage, the supposedly secure messaging app used by White House officials, which in turn led to a massive database dump of their communications.
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I analyzed the Android source code, which TeleMessage published on their website, although it was kind of hard to find," he said.
"I spent a while trying to download a copy of the app, because I knew that if I had a copy, I could request the source code or they would be violating the Signal license. But they published the Android source code
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The TeleMessage archive is now on the Distributed Denial of Secrets website and he has also written a tool called TeleMessage Explorer so that people can have a look through the messages and find out what its customers, which include JP Morgan, VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, and the Washington DC police force, were talking about.
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/10/telemessage_archive_online/

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