Signal clone used by Waltz suspends service after ‘security incident’

The application that the Trump White House has been using to collect and securely store messages sent on popular commercial encrypted apps has temporarily suspended service in the wake of a security breach, the application’s owner said Monday. The application, TeleMessage, is owned by Smarsh, a company based in Portland, Oregon, which provides tools for governments to comply with record-keeping regulations and laws. Last week, a Reuters photograph of Mike Waltz, then the national security adviser, showed that he was using the application to read…