Apple and Facebook gave user data to hackers pretending to be cops
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Apple and Facebook's parent company Meta provided user data to hackers posing as law enforcement officials, Bloomberg reports. Sources claim that the hackers forged emergency data requests which both companies responded to. Apple and Meta handed over the home addresses, phone numbers, and IP addresses of an unknown number of users.
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