Vulnerability in Polar: Leaking User Location
The French wearable smart device company Polar provided a vulnerability in the privacy settings of the app, resulting in a function in the app will reveal the user’s location information. The...
Category: Data Leak
Firefox and Chrome removed Stylish plugin
Recently, Google and Mozilla removed the Stylish plugin from their respective app centres. A bug report shows that Stylish secretly records the user’s browser history and sends the data to a remote server,...
“Stylish” browser extension collect user information
Some software engineers have issued a warning that the well-known webpage customisation extension STYLISH privately collects user history records and uploads them to the advertisement server. The primary function of this...
Google responds to third-party app developers’ ability to access user Gmail
Google released a new blog post on Tuesday to respond to a previous report in The Wall Street Journal, which details the typical situation in which third-party application developers can...
Typeform leaks user data due to security breach
Typeform is a survey software developer based in Barcelona, Spain’s second-largest city. Its free online questionnaire platform of the same name has a wide range of applications worldwide. Many companies and...
Some third-party mail app allow employees to read user mails
According to The Wall Street Journal, to develop a better software experience, some third-party mail providers (links such as Gmail) allow employees to read users’ emails. According to reports, international mail...
Facebook allowed 61 companies to access user data after restricting information 2015
Facebook acknowledged that it allowed 61 companies to access user data even after announcing restrictions on access to such data in 2015. The Wall Street Journal article stated that on Friday,...
Adidas issues a warning about data breach
According to Betanews, the sports brand Adidas suffered data leakage earlier this week, and the company has warned US customers. The company said that it realised that “an unauthorized party claims...
Facebook Data Breach: 120 Million User Data leaked due to NameTests app
The study found that a third-party test application named “NameTests” exposed 120 million Facebook users’ data. However, this application’s vulnerability didn’t repair until last month, which has further increased the Facebook...
Norwegian Consumer Council warns Facebook, Google and Microsoft use Design to trick users to submit personal data
A study published by the Norwegian Consumer Council (PDF) investigated the means by which Facebook, Google and Microsoft collect user data. The survey found that these companies have enabled privacy-intrusive settings by default, using words that can be...
Misconfigured Firebase backends cause massive application-sensitive data leaks
Firebase is a development platform for web and mobile applications. It provides cloud messaging, notifications, databases, analytics, and many back-end APIs. It was acquired by Google in 2014 and is welcomed by...
British Tax Agency HMRC Alleged to Collect 5.1 Million British Voice Records
A British privacy and civil liberties organization found that the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has collected more than 5.1 million British voice records. HMRC was accused of collecting these...
Flightradar24 data leaks: 230,000 users are affected
Flightradar24 can be said to be one of the most popular flight tracking services in the world. With Google Maps and Airline information, users can not only visually see the...
Tesla sues former employee for stealing and disclosing internal company data
According to lawsuits filed by the Federal Court of the United States of Nevada, Tesla sued a former employee, claiming that he stole the company’s trade secrets and disclosed a...
British Dixons Carphone announces serious data breaches
Dixons Carphone, a well-known UK multinational telecommunications company, announced on the 13th that it is investigating a lot of customer data has been illegally accessed. The official description of the...
