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Verizon hack uncovers customer data, researches find

Pedestrians use their cell phones as they pass

Photo credit: AP | Pedestrians use their cell phones as they pass a Verizon Wireless store near Union Square in New York. (June 6, 2013)

Two security experts said they have figured out how to spy on Verizon Wireless mobile phone customers by hacking into devices the U.S. carrier sells to boost wireless signals indoors.

The finding, which the experts demonstrated to Reuters and will further detail at two hacking conferences this summer, comes at a time of intense global debate about electronic privacy, after top-secret U.S....

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