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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.

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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 ...

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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.

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45 million Americans allegedly had their location data collected and sold by Allstate insurance

In a press release, Paxton alleges that the top insurance firm used secretly embedded software in mobile apps like Life360 to ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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