TeleMessage Customers Include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan,Hundreds
a year ago
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- TeleMessage's archive server was hacked, leading to the release of 410 GB of Java heap dumps from May 4, 2025.
- The dataset includes fragments of plaintext chat messages, encrypted messages, and metadata from various messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal.
- Notable findings include a WhatsApp group called 'MPD Command Staff' with DC police members and a Signal group 'US / China AI Race' with AI professionals.
- The dataset contains 60,012 messages, with 36,388 in plaintext and 23,624 encrypted. WhatsApp dominates the message sources.
- A list of potential TeleMessage customers was uncovered, including JP Morgan, Scotiabank, and government agencies like DC Police and US Secret Service.
- An open-source tool called 'TeleMessage Explorer' is being developed to help researchers and journalists analyze the dataset more effectively.