The FBI is warning that hackers are obtaining private user information — including emails and phone numbers — from U.S.-based tech companies by compromising government and police email addresses to submit “emergency” data requests.
The FBI’s public notice filed this week is a rare admission from the federal government about the threat from fraudulent emergency data requests, a legal process designed to help police and federal authorities obtain information from companies to respond to immediate threats affecting someone’s life or property. The abuse of emergency data requests is not new, and has been widely reported in recent years. Now, the FBI warns that it saw an “uptick” around August in criminal posts online advertising access to or conducting fraudulent emergency data requests, and that it was going public for awareness.
Det här bjuder Magasin Macken idag söndag 14 september 2025
Hösten är fylld av stora tekniknyheter, nya serier och heta samhällsfrågor – och Macken guidar dig genom allt som händer. Vi tar en närmare titt på Apples nya iPhone 17 men konstaterar att den verkligt stora nyheten är mjukvaran som…
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