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Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake “Emergency Data Requests”

March 29, 2022 admin anitsu, data extortion, discord, Doxbin, emergency data request, everlynn, fake edr, FBI, kt, lapsus$, mark rasch, microsoft, miku, Ne'er-Do-Well News, oklaqq, Palo Alto Networks, pompompurin, recursion team, The Coming Storm, unit 221b, Web Fraud 2.0, white, whitedoxbin

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:07:27 +0000

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments and government agencies, and then sending unauthorized demands for subscriber data while claiming the information being requested can’t wait for a court order because it relates to an urgent matter of life and death.