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This Spyware Data Leak Is So Bad We Can’t Even Tell You About It

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Dissent

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports:

This story is part of When Spies Come Home, a Motherboard series about powerful surveillance software ordinary people use to spy on their loved ones.

A company that sells consumer-grade software that lets customers spy on other people’s calls, messages, and anything they do on their cell phones left more than 95,000 images and more than 25,000 audio recordings on a database exposed and publicly accessible to anyone on the internet. The exposed server contains two folders with everything from intimate pictures to recordings of phone calls, given that the app markets itself mostly to parents.

Read more on Motherboard.

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