Bloomberg: Apple, Meta provided customer data to hackers using forged ‘emergency data requests’
Apple and Meta —the parent company of Facebook — provided customer data to hackers who claimed to be law enforcement officers.
The hackers apparently used forged “emergency data requests” to get customers’ addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses, Bloomberg’s exclusive investigation discovered.
Normally, requests for that information are fulfilled when companies are presented with a search warrant or subpoena accompanied by a judge’s signature.
Emergency requests do not require a court order.
Bloomberg reported it is not clear how many times Apple and Meta released the data in response to the fake requests.
Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, was also given false documentation but it is not clear if it gave any information to the alleged hackers.
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