Hacker Breaches Securus, the Company That Helps Cops Track Phones Across the US
Source: Motherboard
A hacker has broken into the servers of Securus, a company that allows law enforcement to easily track nearly any phone across the country, and which a US Senator has exhorted federal authorities to investigate. The hacker has provided some of the stolen data to Motherboard, including usernames and poorly secured passwords for thousands of Securus law enforcement customers.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gykgv9/securus-phone-tracking-company-hacked
Wow, and US without a cyber security head.
RockRaven
(14,782 posts)are F*CKING dangerous once created. Anyone really surprised? We need more "should we" questions preceeding our "can we" questions.
unc70
(6,095 posts)The cellular phone network must track every phone continuously. Otherwise it would not have the routing information required to complete a call.
Sentath
(2,243 posts)And this does not.