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Hackers Claim Massive Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data (www.404media.co)
submitted 5 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Hackers have reportedly breached Gravy Analytics, a parent company of Venntel that sells smartphone location data to the U.S. government. The hackers claim to have stolen considerable data, including customer lists, industry information and individuals' location data. They are threatening to make the data public.

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[โ€“] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you think this would make enough people mad enough to get their representatives to do something about it?

[โ€“] TheFriar@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Who said representatives