The application saw exactly the traffic it always does. The copy was taken one layer down, inside the load balancer that decrypts it.
Ten months in a diplomatic academy’s education platform, touching 360 serving diplomats. The coursework was never the point; the roster was.
Espionage-grade capability applied to straightforward theft, against a target with no reversal and no deterrent.
An operator optimising for revenue keeps negotiations separate. Branding them together does the reverse.