May 29 (Reuters) – Federal authorities of the United States are investigating an effort to impersonate the chief of the White House, Susie Wiles, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The report says that Wiles had told Associates that some of his cell phone contacts had been pirated, which allowed the imitator to access private telephone numbers.

The incident affected his personal phone, not his government phone, according to the report.

The Journal reported that in recent weeks, senators, governors, the main business executives of the United States and other figures received messages and calls from a person who claimed to be sorry, citing people familiar with messages.

The White House and the FBI did not immediately respond to the requests for comments.

Washington, DC - May 21: Chief of Cabinet of the White House, Susie Wiles, attends an availability of meetings and press with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, in the Oval Office of the White House on May 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo of Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Washington, DC – May 21: Chief of Cabinet of the White House, Susie Wiles, attends an availability of meetings and press with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, in the Oval Office of the White House on May 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo of Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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The White House has fought with information security. A hacker who violated the communications service used by former Trump National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, earlier this month intercepted messages from a wide strip of US officials, Reuters recently reported.

And at the end of last year, a White House official said that the United States believed that an alleged Chinese cyber -cyber -cyber -cyber spying campaign known as Typhoon from Salt was directed and recorded phone calls from US political figures “very senior.”

(Pitas coast report; Michael Perry edition)