Jared Kushner's unusual decision to use WhatsApp to communicate with foreign leaders and conduct government business has raised concerns among cybersecurity experts that highly sensitive government communications could be at risk of exploitation by foreign governments and hackers.
In a letter published Thursday, House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, wrote that Kushner's attorney, Abbe Lowell, had confirmed that Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, had used the private messaging app on his phone to communicate with foreign leaders. He said he couldn't say whether Kushner had shared classified information via the app.
Co-founder Brian Acton, who sold WhatsApp to Facebook, has urged people to delete their Facebook accounts because of its many privacy scandals.On Thursday, Facebook admitted that it hadn't properly masked the passwords of hundreds of millions of its users but had stored them as plain text in an internal database that could be accessed unencrypted by its staff.The company said it had discovered the exposed passwords during a security review in January and launched an investigation.
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