A hacker says they breached Tile internal tools, including one for processing data for cops, and stole customer data like phone numbers, addresses, and Tile IDs
police data provider says it faced “extortion” attempt following breach Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek : Life360 Says Personal Information Stolen From Tile Customer Support Platform Trevor Mogg / Digital Trends : A hacker stole Tile customer data and tracker IDs David Hollingworth / Cyber Daily : Life360 CEO confirms Tile tracking device data breach Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Tile's parent company Life360 discloses data breach and extortion threat Juli Clover / MacRumors : Hackers Access Tile's Internal Tracking Tools, Customer Data Jessica Lyons / The Register : Crooks crack customer info at tracking device vendor Tile, issue ‘extortion’ demands Patrick O'Rourke / Pocket-lint : If you're a Tile user, your personal information has been compromised WOOD-TV : Tile user data potentially hacked in ‘extortion attempt’: Life360 Arol Wright / How-To Geek : Tile Just Had a Security Breach Jacob Siegal / BGR : Tile customer data and tracker IDs hacked, Life360 confirms Mastodon: Joseph Cox / @josephcox@infosec.exchange : New from 404 Media: Tile was hacked. Hacker had access to internal tools including to get location data for cops (seen here). Also scraped customer data. Tile only published a statement acknowledging breach after I proved to them stolen data was real https://www.404media.co/... [image] @evacide@hachyderm.io : One of the most interesting things about this story is that the hacker allegedly gained access to “a database intended for law enforcement to identify owners of specific Tile trackers.” I've had LE complain that they couldn't ID owners of specific trackers in the past. — https://www.theverge.com/... Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social : A hacker broke into Tile, which sells AirTags-like location tracking devices. Had the ability to ping all Tile users, had access to a tool used by law enforcement to make requests: “Basically I had access to everything” — https://www.404media.co/... Charles U. Farley / @freakazoid@retro.social : Tile has a tool that allows law enforcement to request the location for any Tile. It got pwned, and they tried to cover it up until presented with proof that the leaked data was real. — The only time you should ever trust a tech company not to leak your data is when they don't have it. … Forums: r/privacy : Hacker Accesses Internal ‘Tile’ Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops MacRumors Forums : Hackers Access Tile's Internal Tracking Tools, Customer Data