On March 13, the administrators of an online game marketed for children called Toontown Rewritten received an emergency request for user information that appeared to come from a police captain in Bangladesh.
Major technology companies have been duped into providing sensitive personal information about their customers in response to fraudulent legal requests, and the data has been used to harass and even sexually extort minors, according to four federal law enforcement officials and two industry investigators.
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Never underestimate the ability of the baddies to exploit the good nature inherent to most people. That's the takeaway from this latest depressing news that malicious people are abusing law enforcement tools to harvest personal information to exploit. Here's William Turton, delivering the most recent bit of bad news for everyone everywhere. Apple Inc. and Meta…