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Home security giant ADT says it was hacked
- meowster 2y agoThe battlestar Galactica was on to something.
- davio 2y agoSo say we all
- burkaman 2y ago> [ADT] is currently owned by private equity giant Apollo Global Management, which also owns TechCrunch’s parent company, Yahoo. What a depressing sentence.
- SteveNuts 2y ago"Welcome to Costco, I love you" Pretty soon there's just going to be one company that owns everything, I weep for the future.
- PyWoody 2y agoAOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's
- antisthenes 2y agoDaily reminder that if you're in the US, this is what your parents and grandparents wanted explicitly.
- burkaman 2y agoThis doesn't seem like a very helpful comment or reminder. I'm not happy about who my grandparents voted for, but they and their representatives are all dead so there's nothing we can do about that now. If you want to give out daily reminders they should be about what we can do now to fix it.
- bravetraveler 2y agoBut... The milk. The glass!
- antisthenes 2y agoTeach you kids the difference between socialism and communism, and other economic concepts.
- egberts1 2y agoWell, I got an old ADT 7" panel left behind by the previous home owner. Almost there to become my own alarm/weather-alert unit. Can still get those for dirt cheap on Amazon.
- criddell 2y agoAlternate headline: Home security giant ADT failed to secure customer data
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- gr33nq 2y agoI'm curious as to when the attack took place, because our ADT alarm system was going haywire a couple weeks ago. Their support department said they were having communication issues to our control unit, and on our end there were random tones beeping on all of the alarm pads for about twelve hours, yet no fault/communication failure indicator. We've had the system for years and have never had any similar issues. Maybe coincidental? Although I tend take these disclosure statements with a grain of salt and assume that some detail gets quietly swept under the rug.
- adtburner 2y agoADT employee here. The analytics environment at ADT is a complete joke and mostly staffed by contractors. My money is on this being the source of the breach. As an aside, it's fun to learn about your company having been hacked on HN!
- slowmovintarget 2y agoI almost had a heart attack when my brain turned that into ADP.