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by deadbabe 345 days ago
About half of hacking articles are just fake things people claim to have done but didn’t actually happen and no one checks on it, and conveniently by the time they publish the exploit was “fixed”. So you can’t verify for yourself anyway.

Without hard proof that the author did what they said they did, you have no real case. This particular story already sounds far fetched but makes good fantasy.

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FWIW, this story has been verified by a reporter at TechCrunch, who says he used the dumped database to identify the spyware admin in Uruguay.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/data-breach-reveals-catwat...

Doesn’t change what I said