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

A report highlights that a hacker, posing as a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office officer, sent an emergency data request to Charter Communications and received a target’s PII within minutes; the sender was part of a doxing-as-a-service group exploiting emergency request processes to obtain sensitive data from major U.S. tech firms, as detailed by WIRED.