NEW, by me: A data breach at the phone surveillance operation mSpy has exposed millions of its customers who bought access to the phone spyware app over the past decade, as well as the Ukrainian company behind it.
Troy Hunt, who runs data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned, added about 2.4 million unique email addresses of mSpy customers to his site’s catalog of past data breaches.
More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/11/mspy-spyware-millions-customers-data-breach/
The huge trove of mSpy's breached Zendesk contains about a decade's worth of customer support requests (and file attachments) dating back to 2014, including from government employees and in one case, a sitting U.S. appeals court judge.
The dataset raises questions about the use of mSpy by U.S. government officials and agencies, as it is unclear if any outreach was authorized or if any use of the spyware followed a legal process.
More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/11/mspy-spyware-millions-customers-data-breach/
The huge trove of mSpy's breached Zendesk contains about a decade's worth of customer support requests (and file attachments) dating back to 2014, including from government employees and in one case, a sitting U.S. appeals court judge.
The dataset raises questions about the use of mSpy by U.S. government officials and agencies, as it is unclear if any outreach was authorized or if any use of the spyware followed a legal process.