Russian hackers obtained information from the mobile phones of 148,000 Norwegian citizens. The Office of Personal Data Protection assessed the scale of the incident as “high probability” and the incident could have serious consequences.
The stolen data is said to include information about the location and movement of mobile phone users. Norwegian broadcaster NRK refers to the announcement of a Russian hacker forum. The authors of the article claim that the obtained information can be assigned to specific customers.
Potentially serious consequences
Tobias Judin from the Norwegian data protection agency Datatilsynet, as reported by NRK television, admitted that this incident could have serious consequences.
– Probably, the scale of theft can be huge. The information obtained may contain confidential information that can be used to influence and influence interested parties, he told Norwegian TV journalists.
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This is where the data is allegedly stolen
The location data is said to have been stolen from the Norwegian-based company Gravy Analytics. He collected them from applications installed on mobile phones.
In 2024, the US Federal Trade Commission accused the company of illegally trading mobile phone user data, which includes information about the personal relationships, pregnancies, political and religious views of mobile device users. In December, Reuters reported that Gravy Analytics had reached a settlement with the Joe Biden administration, barring the company from collecting location data. Neither NRK journalists nor Reuters received a comment from Gravy Analytics about the theft of the disclosed data.
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