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Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked
"#Syniverse handles billions of text messages a year, and hackers had unauthorized access to its system for years."
#DataBreach /1
vice.com/en/article/z3x…
Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked
"#Syniverse handles billions of text messages a year, and hackers had unauthorized access to its system for years."
#DataBreach /1
vice.com/en/article/z3x…
"...quietly disclosed that hackers were inside its systems for years, impacting more than 200 of its clients and potentially millions of #cellphone users worldwide." /2
""Syniverse has access to the communication of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people around the world. A five-year breach of one of Syniverse's main systems is a global privacy disaster," Karsten Nohl..." /3
" a security researcher who has studied global cellphone networks for a decade, told @motherboard in an email." /4
""Syniverse systems have direct access to phone call records and text messaging, and indirect access to a large range of Internet accounts protected with SMS 2-factor authentication..." /5
"Hacking Syniverse will ease access to Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and all kinds of other accounts, all at once."" /6
"That means the recently discovered and years-long data breach could potentially affect millions—if not billions—of cellphone users, depending on what carriers were affected..." /7
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