Google Tells Senator It Was Warned Vendor ‘Siphoning’ Passcodes
- Mitto ‘strongly’ denies claim, says it has ‘no credible basis’
- Kaleyra, MessageBird have allegedly cut ties with Swiss firm
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Google told a U.S. lawmaker that it received a warning last May that a European technology company was “siphoning” user passcodes to aid surveillance carried out by foreign governments.
Google told U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, that the company had been tipped off that Mitto AG may have been “siphoning off two-factor text messages for surveillance companies and their foreign government clients,” according to a Wyden aide.