Location tracking company Unacast tells Norway its data was ...

(Reuters) - Location tracking company Unacast has confirmed to the Norwegian government that it was the victim of a hack, according to a notice published by Norwegian public broadcaster NRK on Friday. Last week claims began circulating online that Unacast's data broker subsidiary Gravy Analytics had been the victim of a digital heist. Experts told Reuters that leaked data published to the internet by the hacker or hackers appeared to be genuine, but the company has so far not returned repeated messages seeking comment. The document published by NRK is addressed to Norway's data protection authority and says that the breach involved the theft of information from a Gravy Analytic's web server using a "misappropriated" key. It quotes Unacast's lawyers, BakerHostetler, as saying that the breach was discovered on Jan. 4 but that its timing was still under investigation. The law firm was al...