Company That Handles Billions of Text Messages Was Hacked (and WTF is going on at Facebook?)

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4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Syniverse, a company that is a critical part of the global telecommunications infrastructure used by AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and several others around the world such as Vodafone and China Mobile, quietly disclosed that hackers were inside its systems for years, impacting more than 200 of its clients and potentially millions of cellphone users worldwide. Plus! Facebook is extremely down. What's going on?

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0:00.0	Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.
0:12.6	It's a unit system.
0:15.1	I know this.
0:17.0	It's all the files of the whole park.
0:19.3	It tells her everything.
0:21.0	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:23.8	Eagle One, the package is being delivered.
0:27.7	Hi, everyone.
0:29.0	This is Motherboard Editor-in-Chief Jason Kebler in for Matt Gault,
0:33.2	whose mixing board is not working at the moment,
0:36.2	or rather he doesn't have it yet.
0:38.0	So I'll be your host today.
0:39.7	I'm here with Lorenzo Franceschi, P.Geri.
0:42.0	Hi, Lorenzo.
0:43.8	Hi, Jason.
0:44.7	Hello, everyone.
0:46.4	It's good to have you.
0:47.8	We're doing this, as we mentioned last week, we're trying a new thing where we're recording
0:52.8	live.
0:53.3	And today we're talking about a story you just broke about Cineverse.
0:58.6	Do you want to tell us, A, what happened here, and B, what is Cineverse?
1:05.3	So I guess the long story short is that Cineverse, which is one of the largest global providers of network infrastructure,
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