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Securus Hack Exposes Law Enforcement Customers Of Location Tracking – United States
A company accused of providing mobile location data to law enforcement without warrants has been hacked, exposing data on its customers. A hacker breached Securus Technologies, a U.S. prison phone service provider based in Carrollton, Texas that can also track almost any mobile device in the country via data obtained from wireless carriers like Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. The Securus hack exposed usernames, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords for the company’s customers, according to data obtained by Motherboard. The hacker supplied some of the breached data to Motherboard for verification, including a spreadsheet labeled “police” that listed data on 2,800 Securus customers from sheriff’s departments, local counties, and city law enforcement agencies dating back to 2011. The passwords in the Securus hack database were hashed with MD5, an algorithm known to be insecure since 2010.
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Man Accused Of Spying For China Can Remain In Canada – Canada
A Chinese immigrant accused of being a spy can remain in Canada after the federal government lost an appeal to strip him of his permanent resident status. In upholding a lower tribunal’s decision, the Immigration Appeal Division concluded that Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and his officials have failed to establish Yang Wang was a member of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) or Taiwan’s Military Intelligence Bureau (MIB) to render him “inadmissible” to Canada. While the 40-year-old Toronto man had admitted to providing information for both intelligence agencies, the appeal tribunal said the information — including details about the activities of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice banned in China — was obtained through “open source research” and personal knowledge. “The respondent was a responsive witness. He was not evasive or obfuscatory. He provided thoughtful and complete answers that were largely consistent,” wrote adjudicator Benjamin R. Dolin in a decision issued on April 26.
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Special Forces Accused In Botched Terror Raid That Killed Civilians – Somalia and The United States
American Special Forces in Somalia have been accused of involvement in a bungled terror raid that left five civilians dead. Locals in the Lower Shabelle region south of the capital Mogadishu say U.S. Special Forces and Somali commandos were targeting leaders of the militant Islamist al-Shabab group, but instead killed several farmers on the night of May 9. Farmer Mohamed Sheikh Mohamud told the newspaper that two of the dead were tractor drivers at a banana farm and three were local cattle farmers. A mortuary worker at the Mogadishu hospital to which the bodies were taken said four of the men were killed by shots to the back and one by a shot to the chest. Five other locals were injured, witnesses say. Somali intelligence officials said that three senior militants were captured during the raid and several other fighters killed. A spokesman for Somalia’s internal security ministry, Abdiasis Ali Mohamed, said the soldiers involved were “Somali government forces and their friends.” Local man Ibrahim Ahmed told the Associated Press that the dead “were not armed nor were they al-Shabab members.” Ahmed said he was a family member of one men killed, and commented, “I don’t understand why a farm would make a target for a raid.”
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