Breach of location data broker exposes location histories of millions of app users
Hackers claimed to have breached a company that tracks and sells Americans' location data, and threatened to release the data. Location histories of millions of users of popular apps were later reported to have been exposed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Location histories of millions of app users
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
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Timeline
- Hackers claimed a massive breach of a location data company and threatened to release the data.
- Those affected by the breach of the location data broker were reported to number in the millions.
- The exposure of location histories of millions of users of popular apps came to light.
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