The encrypted messaging app Signal is getting some unexpected attention this week. High-ranking officials in the Trump administration, including Vice

In the US, daily downloads tripled to more than 60,000. In Yemen, where the app is less popular, downloads increased by five times to more than 1,000 per day, bringing the platform from No. 50 in the iOS social media app rankings to No. 9 in the country today.

Now it looks like Signal is reaping the benefits from it. The encrypted messaging app Signal just got a lot more attention, especially in the US and Yemen, following a massive security blunder, leading to Signal downloads in the US jumping by 45% in a single day.

Two U.S. officials also said that Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including separate threads on how to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine as well as military operations. They declined to address if any classified information was posted in those chats.

Despite calls for Mike Waltz or Pete Hegseth to resign, so far White House officials are bashing only The Atlantic. Here’s the latest on the debacle.

President Donald Trump is making his clearest commitment to not fire anyone over an embarrassing accidental leak of his administration’s plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attempting to defend a highly sensitive group chat regarding an impending military strike on Yemen using the encrypted commercial platform known as Signal. The conversation,

US President Donald Trump promised not to fire anyone over the scandal about the messages exchanged in the Signal messenger, where members of his administration discussed strikes against the Houthis in Yemen,