Stalkerware Developer Found Leaking Sensitive Data From Thousands Of The Software's Victims

Stalkerware Developer Found Leaking Sensitive Data From Thousands Of The Software's Victims

4 years ago
Anonymous $9CO2RSACsf

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200220/14571543957/stalkerware-developer-found-leaking-sensitive-data-thousands-softwares-victims.shtml

Oh, if only this were more of a surprise. Another vendor selling sketchy spyware has been discovered to be careless with its handling of all the sensitive communications and data it pulls from victims' cell phones. (via Databreaches.net)

The company doing all the leaking is ClevGuard, which I guess is short for "clever." It apparently isn't. Its phone-snooping app, KidsGuard, is supposed to allow parents to monitor their children's cell phone usage. Obviously, there are other applications for it, like monitoring the activity of spouses, ex-spouses, girlfriends/boyfriends of the current and ex- variety, employees, dissidents, journalists… just about anyone someone else wants to spy on.