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A Popular Virtual Keyboard App Leaks 31 Million Users' Personal Data (zdnet.com)
Zack Whittaker, writing for ZDNet: Personal data belonging to over 31 million customers of a popular virtual keyboard app has leaked online, after the app's developer failed to secure the database's server. The server is owned by Eitan Fitusi, co-founder of AI.type, a customizable and personalizable on-screen keyboard, which boasts more than 40 million users across the world. But the server wasn't protected with a password, allowing anyone to access the company's database of user records, totaling more than 577 gigabytes of sensitive data. The database appears to only contain records on the app's Android users.
A quote from within the article (yes someone read the article):
"It raises the question once again if it is really worth it for consumers to submit their data in exchange for free or discounted products or services that gain full access to their devices,
Like paying for the same app will really turn off that data collection. The question things like this really raises is if allowing any data collection at all, ever, should be allowed.
Frack the password - why was a fracking *keyboard app* storing personal information on a remote server in the first place!?!?!
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