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A company that tracks and sells Americans’ location data has seemingly been hacked

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Hackers claim to have hacked Gravy Analytics , one of the largest U.S. companies that sells location data.

The company was accused of illegally collecting and selling Americans ’ location data without their knowledge or obtaining proper legal consent.

A hacker on a popular Russian cybercrime forum called XSS posted a massive trove of data as evidence of the hack.