The White House reportedly has one or more people reportedly access contact information from the White House Chief Chief Susie Wills' personal phone calls and contact other top officials to impersonate her.
Wills reportedly told people that her phone was being hacked. The Wall Street Journal first reported a hack of Wills' phone. CBS News also confirmed the report.
The hacker or hacker is said to have accessed Wiles' phone contacts, including telephone numbers for other US officials and influential individuals. The WSJ reports that those who received a call impersonating Wiles used AI to impersonate voices and sent text messages from numbers not associated with Wiles.
White House spokesman Anna Kelly, when asked by TechCrunch, said she didn't say whether authorities determined whether a cloud account related to Wiles's personal devices had been compromised or whether Wiles' phones targeted more sophisticated cyberattacks such as those involved the use of government-grade spyware.
In response, the White House said, “We take cybersecurity of all our staff very seriously and this issue is still being investigated.”
This is the second time Wiles has been targeted by hackers. In 2024, the Washington Post reported that Iranian hackers tried to compromise Wills' personal email accounts. The journal said on Friday, citing the source, that the hacker actually managed to break into her email and obtained the documents. [Vice President] JD Vance, then Trump's running mate.
This is the latest cybersecurity incident that has plagued the Trump administration in the months since he took office.
In March, former White House national security adviser Michael Waltz mistakenly added journalists to a signal group of top White House officials, including Vance and Wills, including Yemen's planned military aviation debate.
The report revealed that government officials were using a signal clone app called Telemessage. It is designed to hold a copy of the message for government archives. The telemedge was then hacked at least twice, revealing the contents of the user's private messages.