they also had access to bank accounts as well in total roughly NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN service members dependents and civilians were affected NUMBER_TOKEN million dollars in benefits was stolen by this group now brown and his co-defendants were charged for several counts including wire fraud aggravated identity theft and conspiracy our ability to text each other does not just end with your wireless carrier like at t or verizon or t-mobile there's another company that is crucial to their infrastructure which is called cineverse which provides processing of more than billion text messages each year to NUMBER_TOKEN mobile operator clients all over the world in fact NUMBER_TOKEN out of NUMBER_TOKEN of the biggest telecoms use cineverse as their back end for this processing they route all of these messages between all of their different carriers along with management of routing and roaming between networks so it comes as little surprise that they would be a target for cyber attacks and indeed that was the case according to an sec filing on september NUMBER_TOKENth where cineverse disclosed that they found someone had unauthorized access to their systems for five years this happened between may of NUMBER_TOKEN and may of NUMBER_TOKEN when they finally discovered the breach it seems like they had to disclose this information because they are going through to go public with a merger with mNUMBER_TOKEN brigade acquisition NUMBER_TOKEN corp now according to a previous employee of cineverse the company carries sensitive data like call records text messages data usage length and cost for calls phone numbers and locations but it is not known at this time if any of that data was compromised as well login information for NUMBER_TOKEN client companies was compromised all were contacted and law enforcement was notified cineverse has not disclosed any additional information regarding this hack at this time i love it when you'll send me these adorable pictures of your pets so these are a few from my hush puppy patreon alliance members you can always support this content and you can keep it ad free for as little as two dollars per month and you get a slew of perks at the same time each and every alliance member who signs up on patreon gets over NUMBER_TOKEN perks as soon as you sign up the link is URL_TOKEN threatwire with that let's get into the third news story so i really wanted to talk about that facebook outage that we experienced yesterday now this is still an emerging story and facebook may be back up by the time this video posts as it is currently slowly coming back but it's not quite there yet i am recording this at NUMBER_TOKEN p.m mountain time on monday october NUMBER_TOKENth so if anything happens after that time you can find my updates via my twitter account which is at snubs that's SHORT_HYPHENATED_TOKEN don't put an extra b in there i don't know why everybody wants to put an extra b in the word snubs that's not dictionary snubs is dictionary so first this timing is really odd just a few days ago a whistleblower her name is francis haugen came forward and she helped release documents that formed the wall street journal's facebook files which include tons of information about how facebook knows via its own research that its platform amplifies hate misinformation and political unrest now haugen quit the company in may but not before taking that research with her she copied thousands of pages of internal research research that shows how little action facebook takes against things like hate speech haugen worked as a data scientist and she was assigned to facebook's civic integrity group which that group was later dissolved after the election her documents included internal studies
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