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Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public

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A number of top Trump administration officials appear to have Venmo accounts that have been leaking data to the public.

Experts say this is a potentially serious counterintelligence problem that could allow foreign intelligence services to gain insight into a target’s social network or identify individuals who could be paid or coerced to act against them.

The officials in question include Dan Katz , Joe Kent , Mike Needham , and Dan Katz .

Venmo ’s “contact syncing” feature allows users to upload phone contacts to the app so that they can find people they know.

Today , contact syncing no longer creates connections by default.

To add someone as a friend, users have to search for them, send a request, and have it accepted.

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