Dangerous hacks: Cyber gangsters read billions of text messages
Syniverse, a key company in the mobile industry, was hacked 5 years ago and only realized it at the end of last year. For years, cyber gangsters have even been able to read billions of text messages. But the government of Argentina, the hardware manufacturer Acer and the crypto exchange Coinbase have also admitted to attacks on their IT. Some of the attacks were a long time ago - but they are now fully known. Syniverse specializes in exchanging messages between different mobile phone providers. This includes SMS, but also meta information such as customer data, routing information and service costs. Only now has it been noticed that the US telecommunications company had already...