{"id":138764,"date":"2022-04-27T22:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T03:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/apple-tricked-into-releasing-personal-data-used-to-sexually-extort-minors"},"modified":"2022-04-27T22:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T03:02:17","slug":"apple-tricked-into-releasing-personal-data-used-to-sexually-extort-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/apple-tricked-into-releasing-personal-data-used-to-sexually-extort-minors","title":{"rendered":"Apple tricked into releasing personal data used to sexually extort minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-tricked-into-releasing-personal-data-used-to-sexually-extort-minors3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We learned last month that Apple was <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2022\/03\/30\/apple-and-facebook-reportedly-provided-personal-user-data-to-hackers-posing-as-law-enforcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tricked into releasing personal data<\/a> to hackers, after they posed as law enforcement officials with emergency data requests. A follow-up report reveals that some of this data was used to sexually extort minors.<\/p>\n<p>The latest report also sheds light on how the hackers were able to fool Apple and other tech giants, including Facebook, Google, Snap, Twitter, and Discord \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Usually, a company will only release customer data to law enforcement officials on receipt of a court order, and even then will scrutinize the request carefully, sometimes offering to supply only part of the data requested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We learned last month that Apple was tricked into releasing personal data to hackers, after they posed as law enforcement officials with emergency data requests. A follow-up report reveals that some of this data was used to sexually extort minors. The latest report also sheds light on how the hackers were able to fool Apple [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}