🚨 Months ago, The Intercept lost control of its Signal tip line to an unknown third party, which has been operating it actively. The Intercept recently learned of the breach and posted the innocuous-sounding update below, chalking up a change in the Signal account username to "security best practices." In reality, it's a devastating operational security collapse and The Intercept should publicly address it so that sources who may have been trying to leak to the outlet understand they may have been compromised. Please share this post so potential sources become aware of the risk they may have been duped into. Details below: