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A company that tracks and sells Americans’ location data has seemingly been hacked
(www.nbcnews.com)
Data brokers need to be shut down.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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These hacks keep happening and the brokers seemingly have no way to stop it. Therefore the are culpable, and should be class action sued by those that have standing, to the point where they have to shut down. They shouldn't have existed in the first place.
Gravy noticed unauthorized access to its Amazon Web Services cloud storage on Monday, it said in the notice, and is still investigating it.
Odds on one or more of the AWS buckets being accessible without a key?