Hacker releases call logs of Trump family Kamala Harris India Today

pListen to StoryppA hacker has released the phone numbers allegedly belonging to United States Vice President Kamala Harris and some family members of Presidentelect Donald Trump in an extortion bid against American telecom giant ATTppThe cybercriminal published some call logs on a hacking forum claiming they belong to First Ladyinwaiting Melania Trump daughters Ivanka and Tiffany Trump and a phone number for the iconic MaraLago resort in FloridappThe call logs are from 2022
ppThe hacker instructed ATT to establish contact for negotiations and threatened to release all presidential government call logs In an earlier post the hackers claimed that ATT paid ransom to remove surveillance data belonging to the National Security Agency NSAppIndia Todays OpenSource Intelligence OSINT team reviewed over 2000 numbers and call details provided in the sample data tranche and ran some of the numbers in Truecaller the Swedish app that identifies phone callersppThe app identified three phone numbers as those of Kamala Harris Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump Tiffanys number included in the sample was identified as The Trump OrganppSample data suggests that while Harris often called her spiritual mentor and civil rights leader Amos Brown Tiffany had frequent calls with her mother and Trumps second wife Marla MaplesppUS publication The Nightly identified a number as belonging to Harriss campaign cochair Cedric Richmond and reported it briefly spoke to him indicating that the leaked number could be genuineppIn the past the hacker who goes by the name Kiberphantom leaked data from the public telecommunication company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited BSNLppThe cybercriminal demanded the release of Waifu one of the handles used by Alexander Connor Moucka who was arrested in Canada last week and is facing extradition to the US He is accused of extorting some of the worlds largest corporations earlier this yearppMoucka is believed to be the leader of a hacking group that allegedly carried out several data breaches targeting customers of the cloud data storage company SnowflakeppSnowflake hosts massive amounts of data from large companies like ATT Reports suggest the cyberattacks accessed or stole data of about 164 customers including Santander Bank ticketing site Ticketmaster owner Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketek owner TEGppATT acknowledged at least two data breaches in March and July 2024 In a statement on July 12 the company said the compromised data includes files containing ATT records of calls and texts of nearly all of ATTs cellular customers customers of mobile virtual network operators MVNOs using ATTs wireless network as well as ATTs landline customers who interacted with those cellular numbers between May 1 2022 and October 31 2022ppThe compromised data also includes records from January 2 2023 for a very small number of customers the company confirmedp