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Signal has long been considered one of the most secure messaging platforms, but a few days ago, rumors circulating online indicated the service got hacked and the data of users ended up exposed to malicious actors.
Clearly, this can’t be good news for a platform whose main objective is to provide users with state-of-the-art security, so Signal getting hacked was seen by many as reason enough to move to other platforms.
Well, this shouldn’t happen because Signal wasn’t hacked at all, the company announced today in a tweet. In fact, the platform hasn’t even been attacked, and the rumors of a potential hack are nothing more than a misinformation campaign supposed to convince people to make the switch to other services.
Signal wasn’t attacked
Signal says it noticed an increase in the number of users joining the platform from Eastern Europe, and the company believes this is one of the reasons it’s the target of this fake attack campaign.
“We’ve had a…
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