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It is not clear exactly how and under what circumstances the breach occurred. A Russian-language post and screenshots uploaded early Sunday, January 5, to XSS, a site popular with attention-seeking cybercriminals, carried a claim that the company had been hacked and that large amounts of data were stolen. with Gravy in 2023, were unsuccessful. Gravy’s website was down Wednesday and repeated messages were not returned.
“It passes the smell test 100 percent,” said Marley Smith, the principal threat researcher at cyber intelligence company RedSense.“It all seems to point to it being legitimate,” he said. Such data can be used to tailor online advertising, or deployed for government and corporate surveillance. The Federal Trade Commission has expressed concern it could facilitate stalking, blackmail, and espionage.