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Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People’s Private Data

A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.Photograph: Maxkabakov/Getty ImagesWhen a privacy specialist at the legal response operations center of Charter Communications received an emergency data request via email on September 4 from Officer Jason Corse of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, it took her just minutes to respond, with the name, home address, phone numbers, and email address of the “targe...

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