The White House reacted furiously on Wednesday after The Atlantic magazine published messages between national security officials in a Signal group chat in their entirety, BBC reported.

President Donald Trump called the reporting "all a witch hunt" and declared the publication a "failed magazine".

Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist who was inadvertently included in the chat among senior cabinet leaders, shared texts in which US defence secretary Pete Hegseth provided sensitive information such as detailed timetables and unit information ahead of a US strike in Yemen, according to BBC.

Goldberg said he decided to publish the information after the Trump administration accused him of lying that classified information was shared.