Personal data of over 100 million Android users exposed by mobile app developers: Report

Personal data of over 100 million Android users have been exposed owing to the misconfiguration of third-party cloud services by mobile app developers. The personal data exposed due to this misconfiguration includes emails, chat messages, location, passwords, and photos.

Researchers at CheckPoint Research recently analysed the data of 23 Android apps with the number of downloads per app ranging between 10,000 and 10 million. In their analysis, the researchers discovered that in the last few months many app developers have left data of millions of users’ private information exposed simply by not following best practices when configuring and integrating third party cloud-services into their applications.