Apple and Meta gave user data to hackers who used forged legal requests

Cybersecurity researchers suspect that some of the hackers sending the forged requests are minors located in the UK and the US. One of the minors is also believed to be the mastermind behind the cybercrime group Lapsus$, which hacked Microsoft Corp, Samsung Electronics Co and Nvidia Corp, among others, the people said. — Bloomberg

Apple Inc and Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Facebook, provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

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.”