MediaLab, the parent company of Whisper meanwhile, "strongly disputed these claims."Īccording to the report by Washington Post, this data was discovered by independent cyber-security researchers Matthew Porter and Dan Ehrlich who revealed that they were able to access data of nearly 900 million users through a non-password-protected database open to the public Web. However, information such as age, location, and even the content of these posts was publicly available and were at the risk of being breached by potential hackers. Using Whisper, posts such as video and photo messages could be shared anonymously. The secret-sharing app was launched in 2012, and the majority of its users were below the age of 18.
Whisper, an anonymous secret-sharing mobile app has been allegedly exposing private user data through a public online database, a report published on Thursday claimed.
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