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Daily Dashboard | Investigative Reporting or Hacking? Related reading: OPC details lessons learned from CRA, ESDC breaches

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Two telecoms are calling Scripps Howard News Service reporters hackers after the reporters discovered the personal data of some 170,000 users of a subsidized cell phone program online, reports Ars Technica. The telecoms claim the reporters violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by using sophisticated and “automated” means to uncover the records, but the reporters say they found the data through a Google search. The data included applications for the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Lifeline program—which contained Social Security numbers—collected for telecoms YourTel and TerraCom by Vcare. FCC regulations bar telecom providers from retaining this data, but, according to the report, Vcare had the applications stored on its servers and posted to an open file-sharing area.
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