Bad cybersecurity by Secret Service agents put US officials at risk, inspector general says

Bad cybersecurity practices from Secret Service agents have left their phones vulnerable to hacking and risked the lives of senior US officials they are charged with protecting, according to a new inspector general report. Foreign “adversaries” — a term that can encompass spies and terrorists — “could have intercepted and exploited Secret Service information, placing at risk our Nation’s leaders, other protectees, and employees,” said the report released Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security inspector general (IG). The findings revive longstanding concerns about security practices at the Secret Service two years after the near-assassination of President Donald Trump in...