Tango hack comes after 2 days of the hack of Truecaller and download of the full data. http://www.sea.sy/article/id/1979/en
The Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Truecaller (The global phone directory) website and database The databases content a handred of millions of phone numbers and its owners in addition of millions of Facebook/Twitter/Linkedin/Gmail accounts The databases was dumped and downloaded successfully A list of the databases that been downloaded : truecaller_ugc: 459GB truecaller : 100GB truecaller_profiles : 4GB truecaller_api : 123KB truecaller_PushMe: 2.2KB tc_admin : 7MB tc_www: 70MB Much of the information that were stored the in the databases has beendelivered to the Syrian government On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Collin Anderson <[email protected]>wrote: > Libtech, > > Regrettably, it seems to have slipped the attention of most media, but the > Syrian Electronic Army appears to have managed to compromise the network of > the popular communications service Tango. > > They claim to have retrieved 10 Tb of backup data, so one might imagine > there is a lot of useful data, perhaps call records, account information > and source code, that might be used against those who are not particularly > friendly with the Assad regime. Case in point, Tango seems to have > experienced an increase in Iranian activist users, since it endured the > government's connection throttling during the election better than most. > > Tango's only reply was that it experienced "brief, unauthorized access to > some data," but exfiltrating multiple terabytes of data is no quick task. > The question of replacing Skype on this list is pretty tired, but at least > we can agree on not not giving vital data to a company that responds so > irresponsibly to being hacked. > > http://www.sea.sy/article/id/1981/en > > Cordially, > Collin > -- > *Collin David Anderson* > averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C. > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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