Posted on 03/31/2022 4:09:47 AM PDT by lowbridge
Apple and Facebook reportedly provided sensitive customer information to hackers who faked being law enforcement officials in 2021.
Facebook parent company Meta and Apple gave the hackers basic customer details — such as phone numbers, home addresses, and IP addresses — in response to forged "emergency data requests," Bloomberg reported.
Typically, such data requests can only be granted through search warrants or subpoenas provided by a judge, but emergency requests don't require a full-court order.
The hackers who duped the companies are affiliated with cybercrime groups known as “Recursion Team,” who have a history of using fake legal requests to garner sensitive data, according to three people with knowledge of the matter who spoke with Bloomberg.
The fraudulent legal requests are believed to have been sent by the cybercriminals, who used hacked email domains belonging to law enforcement agencies in multiple countries to persuade the tech companies to provide them with customer data.
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Hmmm.. there might be more to this story.
The recent Disney vs Florida spat indicates Apple et al are acting like a state within a state, if not a Chinese communist state within the state. It is obvious they want to pace the public while they give themselves free reign , and in their own private “toll lanes” they have unlimited speeds.
This is a big problem. Louis XIV being king aside, he would have executed them for this.
If I receive an “official” email from my charge card company (or other money-related account) requesting I log in to answer questions...even cyber-dummies like me know to go directly to a saved company link rather than click on the link in the email.
Why wouldn’t these billion-dollar companies have the common sense to pick up the phone and call?
Yeah but this sort of thing couldn’t happen to a “digital economy”.
h/t SC DOC
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DUPED?
or
BRIBED?.....................
Yup—Big Tech and other multinationals are acting as if they were nations.
Their motto: “The map is not the territory.”
So so precious
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