The Grio

What’s worse than thieves hacking into your bank account? When they steal your phone number, too

WASHINGTON (AP) — One Monday morning in May, I woke up and grabbed my cell phone to read the news and scroll through memes. But it was out of cell service. I couldn’t make calls or texts. That, though ...
Tech Digest

Recycled phone numbers leaving users exposed to hacking, Which? warns

Mobile phone users could be at risk of hacking, nuisance calls and messages or having their phone cut off due to little-known rules around recycling of old phone numbers, Which? warns. The consumer ...
Reuters

Phone hacking victims get access to critical evidence

LONDON (Reuters) - Like all good tabloid tales, the News of the World saga is a scandal that keeps on giving. Investigators have spent months sharing thousands of pages of seized evidence with ...
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‘We’re still living under the shadow of phone hacking’: Inside the making of extraordinary drama The Hack

Is it possible for a news story to be both widely known and not really known at all? The News of the World phone-hacking scandal may be such a paradox. Everyone knows the rudiments of the story – when ...
PC Magazine

Ticketmaster Confirms User Email Addresses, Phone Numbers Stolen in Hack

Ticketmaster Confirms User Email Addresses, Phone Numbers Stolen in Hack The breach hit users in the US, Canada, and Mexico who bought tickets from the company, according to a data breach notice going ...