Security News This Week: Fake Cops Scammed Apple and Meta to Get User Data

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Security News This Week: Fake Cops Scammed Apple and Meta to Get User Data
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In one of the more creative ploys we've seen recently, hackers reportedly duped Apple and Meta into handing over sensitive user data, including names, phone numbers, and IP addresses, Bloomberg. The hackers did so by exploiting so-called emergency data requests , which police use to access data when someone is potentially in immediate danger, such as an abducted child, and which do not require a judge's signature.

Civil liberty watchdogs have long criticized EDRs are ripe for abuse by law enforcement, but this is the first we've heard of hackers using the data-privacy loophole to steal people's data., the hackers gained access to police systems to send the fraudulent EDRs, which, because of their urgent nature, are allegedly difficult for tech companies to verify.

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