Washington: A Pentagon watchdog has concluded that US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth risked exposing classified information by sharing details of a planned US strike in Yemen over the messaging app Signal, multiple media outlets reported.

According to sources cited in the reports, the Pentagon inspector general found that the information Hegseth conveyed came from a US Central Command planning document labeled Secret/NOFORN — a classification that prohibits sharing with any foreign national.

The watchdog determined that passing such operational details through a commercial messaging platform could have jeopardised US forces preparing for the mission, Xinhua news agency reported.

The inspector general’s assessment also stated that Hegseth should not have used Signal for transmitting clas

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