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Categories : CDPI Privacy Newsletter
Dates : April 2024

Facebook’s Project Ghostbusters: The better to spy on you

April 2, 2024
Charmingly named Project Ghostbusters, Facebook (Meta) apparently went to great trouble to spy on competitors, including Snapchat, Amazon and YouTube for user data. This revealed in unsealed documents in California federal court, was done to gain competitive advantage and understand how users behaved on other sites – and was supported by Meta executives including CEO Mark Zuckerberg. It was done by intercepting and decrypting network traffic between user devices and company servers.
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AT&T acknowledges data of ~73M consumers breached & at risk

April 2, 2024
In 2021, a threat actor claimed to be selling data of 73 million AT&T customers, but the telecom demurred saying there hadn’t been a breach. Well, apparently, that was incorrect as AT&T now confirms, and highly sensitive information dating back to 2019 has been leaked on the dark web. This includes Social Security numbers, passcodes, email addresses and birth dates, and has raised concerns over risks for identity theft.
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