Category: Data Breach

  • Mass Surveillance, Repressive Regimes, and the Hacking Team

    Mass Surveillance, Repressive Regimes, and the Hacking Team

    On Monday, 13th July 2015 the Italian company ‘Hacking Team’, who design and develop surveillance software specifically to aid governments around the globe in hacking their own citizen’s devices, was itself the victim of a devastating hack. The company has been shrouded in controversy since Paris-based Reporters Without Borders listed it as a ‘Corporate Enemy’…