Intercept: WH Staffer Left Encrypted Email Password at Bus Stop

White House staffer Ryan P. McAvoy wrote the password to his encrypted ProtonMail email account on a piece of White House memo paper and left it at a bus stop close to the White House, the Intercept reports.  

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

ProtonMail is an encrypted email provider often used by people who regularly handle sensitive information, including journalists and people in politics. The Intercept confirmed McAvoy’s information.

The report comes the same week House Intelligence Committee Democrats said they were interested in filing a subpoena to see whether Jared Kushner used Facebook Messenger, Signal, Slack, Instagram, Snapchat, iMessage and WhatsApp to communicate during the election and presidential transition and whether key witnesses of interest used WhatsApp to communicate with each other.

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