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posted by takyon on Saturday May 16 2015, @01:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the spy-vs-spy dept.

Spying software maker mSpy sells their offerings as a service package and claims to enable its customers to spy on iPhones and Android phones. It is used by ~2 million people to spy on their children, partners, exes, etc. Retrieved data is stored on mSpy's servers. Brian Krebs reports that mSpy has been hacked and their entire database of spying data (with a size of several hundred gigabytes) has been posted on the Dark Web. The trove includes Apple IDs and passwords, and the complete contents of phones including photos and emails, etc.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 16 2015, @02:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 16 2015, @02:35AM (#183633)

    And yet TFA spends a lot of time discussing the case of StealthGenie, a similar company who's CEO plead guilty to advertising and selling a spyware app.

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday May 16 2015, @02:36AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday May 16 2015, @02:36AM (#183635) Journal

    Isn't all "apps" spying and ripping the phonebook, sms and all other goodies? ;-)

    • (Score: 2) by mtrycz on Saturday May 16 2015, @09:46AM

      by mtrycz (60) on Saturday May 16 2015, @09:46AM (#183710)

      Not if you use Open Source apps, of the likes found on F-droid. My phone doesn't even have Play installed.

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