A FBI looks at a person or people who pretend White House Chief of staff Susie WilesWall Street Journal reported Friday.
According to reports, an unknown imitator sent texts and made phone calls to Wiles's contacts, including outstanding republican politicians and business leaders. Wiles told his colleagues that her phone’s contacts were hacked, sources in the magazine reported. According to these sources, her personal mobile phone, and not her government device, was what was purposefully.
The magazine reports that some of those who contacted, believed that the messages came from Wiles, including one, asking the list of people whom Trump could forgive. According to the report, during telephone calls, the imitator, reportedly used a voice that sounded like the chief of staff, which could be created using artificial intelligence.
But those with whom they contacted ultimately questioned the source of information when the imitator asked for transferring money and began to make grammatical mistakes or use a language that did not correspond to Wiles. ' Requests from a person representing himself as Wiles also came from another phone number.
During the presidential campaign, Wiles was According to reports, the victim Iranian operation, which hacked its email account. This time, the FBI informed the White House that he did not suspect the participation of a foreign government, according to the magazine.
“The FBI accepts all threats against the president, his employees and our cybersecurity with maximum seriousness,” said FBI director Patel Patel Patel. “The protection of the ability of our administration officials to communicate reliably to fulfill the president’s mission is the main priority.”
The press secretary of the White House told the magazine that they are very serious about “cybersecurity of all staff, and this issue is still being investigated.”
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