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users of child surveillance app TeenSafe suffer data breach

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2018-05-20 19:51:56
Security

ZDNet reports [zdnet.com]

A server stored teenagers' Apple ID email addresses and plaintext passwords [...] At least one server used by an app for parents to monitor their teenagers' phone activity has leaked tens of thousands of accounts of both parents and children.

[...] the Los Angeles, Calif.-based company left its servers, hosted on Amazon's cloud, unprotected and accessible by anyone without a password.

"Technology has brought with it a world your child might not be ready for," the company tells us in a video [youtube.com]. "Begin a free trial today!"

TeenSafe home page [teensafe.com] (archives [archive.fo] and more archives [archive.org])


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