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Coordinates of Millions of Smartphones Feared Stolen
Gravy Analytics has been sued yet again for allegedly failing to safeguard its vast stores of personal data, which are now feared stolen.
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A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are--knowingly or not--being used to collect your information behind the scenes. https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb/ via @wired.com 1/2[image or embed] -- The Markup (@themarkup.org) January 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are--knowingly or not--being used to collect your information behind the scenes. https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb/ via @wired.com 1/2[image or embed]
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... A complaint [PDF], filed in federal court in northern California yesterday, is at least the fourth such lawsuit against Gravy since January, when an unidentified criminal posted screenshots to XSS, a Russian cybercrime forum, to support claims that 17 TB of records had been pilfered from the American analytics outfit's AWS S3 storage buckets. The suit this week alleges that massive archive contains the geo-locations of people's phones. Gravy Analytics subsequently confirmed it suffered some kind of data security breach, which was discovered on January 4, 2025, in a non-compliance report [PDF] filed with the Norwegian Data Protection Authority and obtained by Norwegian broadcaster NRK. ...
The suit this week alleges that massive archive contains the geo-locations of people's phones.
Gravy Analytics subsequently confirmed it suffered some kind of data security breach, which was discovered on January 4, 2025, in a non-compliance report [PDF] filed with the Norwegian Data Protection Authority and obtained by Norwegian broadcaster NRK. ...
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