Last week, Meta, Discord, and Apple admitted to a deeply bizarre and troubling mistake: They had all handed user data over to hackers who forged law enforcement emergency data requests via compromised email accounts. It’s a scary situation not just because user information was disclosed to hackers posing as government officials—though, of course, that’s a huge problem—but also because there’s no straightforward way for the companies or law enforcement officials to solve this moving forward, at least not without having to face huge trade-offs.
Link: Apple, Meta, and Discord All Handed User Data Over to Hackers. Now What?
via slate.com
