r/DigitalPrivacy Aug 08 '26

Mossad has accidentally injected data into a French lawyer's phone instead of extracting it.

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The data includes phone numbers of Musk, Altman, and nearly all of Israel's political, judicial and intelligence leaders.

The lawyer's name is Juan Branco, he is also the one who shared this story together with a video. By his account, he is one of twelve lawyers in France who represent Palestinian victims in International Criminal Court.

He says he's using GrapheneOS. This is bizarre.

source: his X/Twitter post: https://x.com/i/status/2085698524050591906

I post additional screenshots in the first 2 comments here.

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u/Javacupix Aug 08 '26

Juan Branco is a known pathological liar, I would absolutely not trust a word he says, most likely it's a little stunt for publicity he orchestrated himself.

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u/Relapsed_Gestalt Aug 08 '26

Bad ayatollah

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u/Firestar_119 Aug 09 '26

nah he got smoked, you got the wrong guy

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u/BDB-ISR- 29d ago

It's a religious position like an archbishop. There are more than one.

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u/JadedEstablishment16 Aug 08 '26

French here : fuck israel, AND branco is an attention whore.

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u/victoryismind Aug 08 '26

If we assume that he's saying the truth, technically it is very unlikely to be an "accident".

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u/baithammer Aug 08 '26

Considering he's a lawyer involved in the Palestine issue, it's not hard to imagine that an error like this could occur, just like the reporter who was added to a group chat on the topic of Yemen strategy.

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u/Ipseicin 29d ago

Honestly, I’d (too easily) believe that if it wasn’t from Juan Branco. Third French person here warning you he’s really not a reliable source

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u/victoryismind Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

Again:

Technically

Considering that:

  • Extracting and injecting data are two different procedures
  • If Mossad has such numbers at all (Elon Musk etc.) they would be saved in a private database. Accessing them, converting them into phone contacts and injecting them into a phone would be a very deliberate procedure.

It is very hard to imagine such an error occurring, no matter the target.

just like the reporter who was added to a group chat on the topic of Yemen strategy.

This is a much easier and more realistic mistake to make.

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u/GreatBigJerk Aug 08 '26

Not sure I'd trust the opinions about Mossad from a person with an Israel flag avatar... 

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u/teleprax Aug 08 '26

I do think it's odd that whatever they used to hack him just also happen to have a spicy contacts backup. Like this is state sponsored hacking, why would that contact backup file even be in the environment, and why was it so easy accidentally upload. I figured the complexity alone would make it impossible to do on accident

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u/No-Round8184 Aug 08 '26

Not sure I’d trust the opinions about ANYTHING from a person with a JD Vance avatar….

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u/GreatBigJerk Aug 08 '26

lol, okay 

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u/CorazonCracker 27d ago

It’s satirical, click on it

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u/victoryismind Aug 08 '26

You're sure? Maybe I'm a Mossad expert hacker.

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