Police Tracked a Terror Suspect—Until His Phone Went Dark After a Facebook Warning

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WhatsApp notified about 1,400 users—among them a suspected terrorist—that their phones had been hacked by an 'advanced cyber actor.' That's when a police probe of a potential terror plot went dark.

A team of European law-enforcement officials was hot on the trail of a potential terror plot in October, fearing an attack during Christmas season, when their keyhole into a suspect’s phone went dark.

WhatsApp, Facebook Inc.’s popular messaging tool, had just notified about 1,400 users—among them the suspected terrorist—that their phones had been hacked by an “advanced cyber actor.” An elite surveillance team was using spyware from NSO Group, an Israeli company, to track the suspect, according to a law-enforcement official...

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Whoa. karolcummins

Shows how close the law enforcement work with tech companies..

Terrorism is an immigration problem, not a consumer safety problem. Cant find the terrorists without enabling americans to get their identity stolen? Stop importing them.

Zuck supporting terrorists by tipping them off. lol.

I did get banned from What's App recently and I never used it. I literally only talked with 3 people of it. Perhaps I got hacked or was blacklisted by accident :(

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