TECH

Digital espionage service lets millions of private data out on the internet
According to Krebs on Security, there are millions of privately held records owned by various subscribers and non-subscribers of mSpy's services at risk of being misused and used by hackers. Brian Krebs, responsible for the portal that published the complaint, said that these records include the passwords of users' accounts, their call records, text messages, contacts, notes, geolocation records and access credentials to their iCloud accounts .MSpy is software that can be installed on smartphones and tablets to monitor the activity of the device in question. In response to the article by Krebs, the company responsible for the program deleted its database where it stored these records.It appears that the data was freely available on the Web, which meant that it was not necessary to provide any password to "rummage through" the mSpy files. Note that this is not the first data leak that technology faces, after having seen its database hacked and loaded in Dark Web in 2015.Krebs resorted to the live chat service to report the problem and, according to him, was immediately blocked by the operator. Later a representative of the company approached the journalist to thank him and to inform him that the data would have been taken off the air. However, the question remains whether they have been downloaded by any hacker or if they have since been put up for sale on the deep web.MSpy is mostly used by parents who want to spy on their children's activity, or by employers who want to monitor the activity of their employees. This may have led to data from customers and "spy" parties being included in the records that have now been posted on the internet.



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