Federal Judge, ICE Agents Linked to Compromised Spyware Use
Sometimes the government spies on you. And sometimes they hire a poorly secured Eastern European firm to do it for them. Last week, hacktivists published the customer support database for Brainstack, a Ukrainian company that runs a phone tracking service called mSpy. (It was the third mSpy security breach in a decade.) The database includes messages from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, active-duty troops, and a U.S. circuit court judge interested in using mSpy to conduct surveillance. Employees at the U.S. State Department, the Nebraska National Guard, and two federal auditi...