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FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Customer Location Data

Krebs on Security

That same month, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that LocationSmart — a data aggregation firm working with the major wireless carriers — had a free, unsecured demo of its service online that anyone could abuse to find the near-exact location of virtually any mobile phone in North America.

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New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts

Krebs on Security

The data stolen included customer name, billing address, email, phone number, date of birth, T-Mobile account number, as well as information on the number of customer lines and plan features. Image: customink.com In a filing today with the U.S. The company said it first learned of the incident on Jan.

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FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data

Krebs on Security

That same month, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that LocationSmart — a data aggregation firm working with the major wireless carriers — had a free, unsecured demo of its service online that anyone could abuse to find the near-exact location of virtually any mobile phone in North America.

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T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People

Krebs on Security

“Importantly, no phone numbers, account numbers, PINs, passwords, or financial information were compromised in any of these files of customers or prospective customers.” T-Mobile said it was also able to confirm approximately 850,000 active T-Mobile prepaid customer names, phone numbers and account PINs were also exposed.

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Personal AI Assistants and Privacy

Schneier on Security

This requires an intimacy greater than your search engine, email provider, cloud storage system, or phone. It will have a convincing voice, a confident tone, and an authoritative manner. . […] All of this is a long-winded way of saying that we need trustworthy AI. Acting as your advocate with others, and as a butler with you.

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When Efforts to Contain a Data Breach Backfire

Krebs on Security

Holistic-K1ller said the database included the full names, addresses, phone numbers, Mexican tax IDs (RFC), email addresses and balances on more than 10 million citizens. Holistic-K1ller said the database included the full names, addresses, phone numbers, Mexican tax IDs (RFC), email addresses and balances on more than 10 million citizens.

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Google’s “Left of Home” Newsfeed Get Confused

John Battelle's Searchblog

It’s disconcerting when your phone doesn’t know you anymore. I’ve had a Google phone for more than a decade, from its initial incarnation as the “Nexus” to its current apex form, the Pixel 8 Pro. It was a very strange feeling to realize my phone seemed to have utterly forgotten who I was.