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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    Wow, Signal is end-to-end encrypted and secure, now switching to some random service that stores all their message is mindblowingly stupid

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      They got shit for being stupid and using a public FOSS app that skirts the law.

      It makes a kind of sense they would switch to something worse, because of the aforementioned stupid part.