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A hacking campaign has come to light wherein technology companies like Apple and Meta are being targeted with fake emergency data requests to extract user data. Here is all that is known about the campaign till now.
Apple and Meta were scammed into providing sensitive user data to hackers in mid-2021 through a fake emergency data request while impersonating a law enforcement officer.
Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials,
Citing three people with knowledge of the matter, Bloomberg writes that Apple and Meta were responding to forged Emergency Data Request (EDR) forms. While standard data requests...
The two tech companies are believed to have provided hacker groups with user information as part of the impersonation.