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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

Hackers Claim Massive Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data

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Hackers Claim Massive Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

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Gravy Analytics has been one of the most important companies in the location data industry for years, collating smartphone location data from around the world selling some to the U.S. government. Hackers say they stole a mountain of data.

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  literally the first 2 words in the article and this post
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  My guess: NSA, Google, Apple, then some data selling jerks.

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