White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is the apparent target of a hacking scam, according to a new report.
According to the Wall Street Journal, which cited sources it did not name, the White House and FBI are investigating after political and business leaders received fake communications supposedly from Wiles
The Journal reported, “senators, governors, top U.S. business executives and other well-known figures” have received texts and calls from someone claiming to be Wiles.
The Journal said, the scam has been going on for several weeks, with Wiles claiming someone hacked into her personal cellphone contacts — although it is not known how that took place.
As the FBI investigates, its current conclusion is that no foreign nation is behind the fake messages.
Calls have used artificial intelligence to leave messages that sound like Wiles’s voice, the Journal reported, although the calls did not come from Wiles’s phone number.
Some requests have seemed official, such as a request to one lawmaker to develop a list of people President Donald Trump could pardon.
As a result, members of Congress have been informed of the impersonation scam.
Suspicions began to flare among recipients when questions were asked to which Wiles