Zack Whittaker reports:
A trio of phone surveillance apps, which was caught spying on millions of people’s phones earlier this year, has gone offline.
Cocospy, Spyic, and Spyzie were three near-identical but differently branded stalkerware apps that allowed the person planting one of the apps on a target’s phone access to their personal data — including their messages, photos, call logs, and real-time location data — usually without that person’s knowledge.
… In February, a security researcher told TechCrunch that the apps share the same security flaw that allowed anyone to access the personal data of any device with one of the apps installed. … The researcher used the bug to scrape 3.2 million email addresses of Cocospy, Spyic, and Spyzie customers who had signed up and provided those email addresses to the data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned.
Read more at TechCrunch.