Hackers claim massive breach of company that tracks and sells Americans' location data
Now, hackers have reportedly stolen data from Gravy Analytics, the parent company of Venntel, which has sold vast amounts of smartphone location data to the U.S. government. I’M GIVING AWAY THE LATEST & GREATEST AIRPODS PRO 2 Enter the giveaway by ...
Massive location data hack exposed 30M records – here’s how to protect yourself
Over 30 million location data points leaked after hackers breached Gravy Analytics, a location data broker. Here's how to defend yourself.
Ads in popular apps exposed a mountain of your location data to hackers
The ads you're viewing in popular apps have been co-opted by companies harvesting your location data — and now hackers have it.
Major Data Broker Leak Might Have Exposed Location Data of Millions
A leak at data broker Gravy Analytics might have exposed precise location data from some of the most popular Android and iOS apps, 404Media reports. While the impact of the breach is unconfirmed, a screenshot posted by the hackers on the Russian cybercrime ...
These popular smartphone apps didn't steal your location data, but someone stole it from them
Hackers have revealed that location data is being stored by misusing the real-time bidding process, which allows firms to bid for ad space within popular smartphone apps. Dating apps like Tinder and Grindr, plus games such as Temple Run, Candy Crush, and others, are among the impacted apps.
Data Broker Hack Exposes Location Info From Millions of iPhone Users
Data broker Gravy Analytics has been hacked, and location information from millions of iPhone and Android users is at risk, reports TechCrunch.
Millions of Americans' location data compromised in apparent hack
Russian hackers appear to have stolen the location data of millions of people worldwide, including Americans. Here's what we know.
A breach of a data broker’s trove of location data threatens the privacy of millions
The company confirmed the breach after a hacker posted millions of location data records online. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
A major data broker hack may have leaked precise location info for millions
Last week, major location data broker Gravy Analytics disclosed a data breach that may have resulted in the theft of precise location data for millions of people, reports TechCrunch. That appears to include data from popular mobile games like Candy Crush,
Hackers steal 'intimate' location data from users of thousands of apps
Russian-speaking hackers are believed to have stolen a huge trove of location data pulled from people’s phones around the world. Tens of millions of phone coordinates pinged through the use of thousands of popular apps are said to have been accessed.
NSA Warns iPhone And Android Users—Disable Location Tracking
NSA’s warning comes by way of an advisory it last updated in 2000. But it’s still live and it’s clearly still relevant. As ...
45 million Americans allegedly had their location data collected and sold by this top insurance firm
In a press release, Paxton alleges that the top insurance firm used secretly embedded software in mobile apps like Life360 to ...
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A company is stealing your location data from these popular apps
However, the attack wasn’t targeting users, but rather a “data-scraper” company that is harvesting the location of ...
Texas Sues Allstate for Collecting Driver Data to Raise Premiums
The lawsuit accuses the insurance company of paying app developers to install code in their products that sent sensitive ...
Mobile apps exploited to harvest location data on massive scale, hacked files reveal
The information comes from hacked files belonging to Gravy Analytics, a location data company whose subsidiary, Venntel, has ...
45 Million Phones Tracked Without Consent, Says Lawsuit
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Allstate and its subsidiary, Arity, accusing them of unlawfully ...