Life360 Selling Location Data, NSO Group Spyware Hacks Government Employees, Homecoming Queen Contest Hacked
Life360, a popular family safety app used by 33 million people worldwide, is selling location data to a dozen data brokers, phones of 11 U.S. State Department employees were hacked with spyware from the infamous NSO Group, and details on a bizarre story about a mother and daughter that face 16 years in prison for hacking into a school computer system to rig a homecoming queen election.
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Life360 selling location data
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-safety-app-life360-is-selling-precise-location-data-on-its-tens-of-millions-of-user
AP Source: NSO Group spyware used to hack State employees
https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-middle-east-israel-hacking-290f990cc1b6aa8fd870ecd540e12664
Florida teen and her mother accused of hacking homecoming queen election refuse plea deal, claiming they have been framed
https://www.databreaches.net/florida-teen-and-her-mother-accused-of-hacking-homecoming-queen-election-refuse-plea-deal-claiming-they-have-been-framed/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-teen-emily-grover-was-accused-of-hacking-a-homecoming-queen-contest-and-faces-16-years-in-prison
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*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from The Shared Security Show authored by Tom Eston. Read the original post at: https://sharedsecurity.net/2021/12/13/life360-selling-location-data-nso-group-spyware-hacks-government-employees-homecoming-queen-contest-hacked/
