The company left a server open and unprotected, regurgitating private data slurped from thousands of surveilled people, including children.
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Mobile spyware maker mSpy leaks millions of records – AGAIN
The irony: Parents put it on kids’ phones to protect them, but this breach exposed sensitive data including Whatsapp and Facebook messages.
You STILL support encryption designed to be crackable in 1995? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Watch this week’s “60 Second Security” – the one-minute news roundup video with attitude!
SSCC 199 – Don’t panic, it’s not really as VENOMous as you thought [PODCAST]
Our latest weekly security podcast – the VENOM bug, iris recognition, a spyware company breach, and ID trouble at the Passport Agency. Happy listening!
South Korea mandates spyware on teens’ phones
Parents can’t opt out, regardless of any privacy concerns. Let’s hope they don’t get hit by an mSpy-esque data breach.
Mobile spyware customer data leaked online in apparent mSpy hack
The biggest victims of the mSpy ‘hack’ are likely to be those who were unaware their sensitive data was being logged in the first place.
Woman charged with planting spyware on cop’s phone
A woman has been charged after eavesdropping on “sensitive law enforcement communications” by tapping the mobile phone of her police officer ex.
Head of ‘StealthGenie’ mobile stalking app indicted for selling spyware
The indictment alleges that StealthGenie can and has recorded all incoming/outgoing voice calls; intercepted calls to be monitored in real time; allowed the buyer to call the phone and activate it at any time to monitor all surrounding conversations within a 15-foot radius; and allowed the buyer to monitor a target’s incoming and outgoing e-mail messages and SMS messages, incoming voicemail messages, address book, calendar, photographs, and videos—all without the knowledge of the phone’s user.