Home security giant ADT says it was hacked

> [ADT] is currently owned by private equity giant Apollo Global Management, which also owns TechCrunch’s parent company, Yahoo.

What a depressing sentence.

ADT 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!

I'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.

The battlestar Galactica was on to something.

Well, 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.

I almost had a heart attack when my brain turned that into ADP.

Alternate headline:

Home security giant ADT failed to secure customer data