Kevin Collier is a reporter covering cybersecurity, privacy and technology policy for NBC News.
One of the largest companies that tracks Americans’ location through smartphone data has been hacked by Russian cybercriminals in exchange for ransom, according to two cybersecurity researchers and a person who has posted a massive trove of allegedly hacked files. The incident would be one of the largest known breaches of a handful of controversial U.S.
Writing in Russian, the hacker claimed they would upload more if Gravy didn’t pay an unspecified ransom. The files have since been removed, but not before they were downloaded and shared among cybersecurity researchers, two of whom analyzed them and said they found them likely authentic. John Hammond, a researcher at the cybersecurity company Huntress, told NBC News that sorting through the data, he found a database of more than 300,000 individuals’ email addresses.
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