Military chat leak | Signalgate: Proof that security & compliance risks are a cultural problem

Earlier this week, news broke that a journalist for The Atlantic was accidentally invited to a group chat which apparently revealed top secret details of an impending military operation to bomb Yemen.

If, somehow, you missed that story, the group chat included, among others, the Vice-President, JD Vance; Pete Hegseth the head of the DoD (Department of Defense) and Michael Waltz the President’s National Security Advisor. Dubbed 'signalgate' by world media, Trump has opted instead to use the term 'glitch.'

Whatever you want to call it, this debacle is perhaps the highest-profile example we have ever had about what happens when leaders play fast and loose with the need for a culture of security.

Ironically, while the qualifications for such high level roles might be questionable in the case of former TV host Hegseth, Waltz is a decorated special forces veteran with plenty of experience of closed loop comms procedures. Oh, and as already mentioned, he is National SECURITY Advisor. And yet, he is the one that included the journalist, Jeffery Goldberg in the chat.