White House staffer Ryan McAvoy reportedly left a piece of official stationary at a bus stop that contained a password for an encrypted email account.
The news organization The Intercept obtained the piece of paper from someone who found it at the bus stop. The reporter confirmed its authenticity but emails it sent to the aide, who is a staff assistant, were not returned.
A White House staffer wrote his encrypted email password on White House letterhead and then left it at a bus stop https://t.co/7cpgAuflMw pic.twitter.com/qJ1Xsqg0G7
— Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) March 17, 2018
Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have indicated they are interested in obtaining communications for officials at the White House, through messaging channels such as Slack and Snapchat, as part of what could be a renewed investigation on Russian interference in the U.S. election should they become the majority party after the 2018 midterms.
