According to three people familiar with the situation, Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, supplied consumer data to hackers impersonating law enforcement authorities. In response to the fake “emergency data requests,” Apple and Meta gave user data. It was the customer’s address, phone number, and IP address, in mid-2021. As […]
Microsoft Corp claimed the hacker group Lapsus$ gained “limited access” to its networks. This followed a claim by Lapsus$ that it obtained source code for the Bing search engine and Cortana voice assistant. For some weeks, the software giant has been watching the actions of Lapsus$. It describes it as a “large-scale social engineering and extortion […]
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