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Hackers Claim Massive Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data (www.404media.co)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I’m in the minority here, but maybe they should release it. So we can really see what these nameless, faceless data giants are doing. Data brokers already list our home address, known affiliations, places of work, etc. that’s our personal info already out and being traded. Leak the shit. Let’s see what the 1,000th previously unknown company trading in private data is doing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Who said representatives