There are so many reports of this nature that I literally can’t even. My vacation can’t come soon enough, but in reality I’m just going to be worrying about all of you staying safe in the face of widespread negligence and malfeasance. Read on if you dare:
AT&T employees took bribes to plant malware on the company’s network
TLDR: Pakastani hackers bribe ATT employees $1M+ over the course of 5 years to unlock phones and install malware and rogue devices on ATT networks.
More N.S.A. Call Data Problems Surface as Law’s Expiration Approaches
TLDR: Remember all that secret data collection the NSA got caught doing a few years back? They were supposed to delete that data, but Oops! they didn’t.
Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers
TLDR: Yelp set up a shady deal with GrubHub to redirect customer calls through their hub instead of dialing the restaurant direct. Restaurants get charged a marketing fee for this sleight-of-hand.
Twitter may have shared your data with ad partners without consent
TLDR: Twitter may have inadvertently shared data on your viewing habits that it collected without authorization. And then used that data to show you more ads. “Oops.”
Democratic Senate campaign group exposed 6.2 million Americans’ emails
TLDR: Dumb campaign staffer puts unsecured spreadsheet online in 2010. Emails have been exposed for nearly 10 years.
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