Apple and Meta gave users' data to hackers who used forged legal requests
Hackers affiliated with cyber-crime group ‘Recursion Team’ believed to be behind some forged requests Apple and Meta, the parent company of Facebook , provided customer data to hackers who pretended to be law-enforcement officials, sources said. Apple and Meta provided basic subscriber details, such as a customer’s address, phone number and IP address, in mid-2021 in response to the forged “emergency data requests”. Normally, such requests are only provided with a search warrant or subpoena signed by a judge, the sources said. But emergency requests do not require a court order. Snap received a forged legal request from the same hackers, but it is not known whether the company provided data in response. It is also not clear how many times the companies provided data after receiving forged legal requests. Cyber-security researchers suspect that some of the hackers sending the forgeries are minors in the UK and the US. One minor is also believed to be the leader of the cyber-c...