Signal is pushing back on German reporting that framed a recent incident as a 'hack,' clarifying that its encryption, servers, and app code were not breached. Past similar incidents — like the Russia-linked phishing attacks PCMag covered — targeted individual user accounts through social engineering, not Signal itself, which is the distinction Signal is drawing here. The post is the first in a thread, so the full technical explanation comes in follow-up posts. Worth knowing: 'Signal was hacked' headlines almost always mean a specific user got phished, which is a meaningfully different threat than the protocol being broken.