{"id":26162,"date":"2017-12-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grapevinemsp.com\/popular-android-keyboard-app-collected-private-information-has-been-breached\/"},"modified":"2017-12-28T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T16:00:00","slug":"popular-android-keyboard-app-collected-private-information-has-been-breached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grapevinemsp.com\/popular-android-keyboard-app-collected-private-information-has-been-breached\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Android Keyboard App Collected Private Information, Has Been Breached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7204\" src=\"https:\/\/sitesdev.net\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Popular.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>How many apps do you have on your smartphone? Do you know how much data they&#8217;re collecting about you?<\/p>\n<p>Most people have scores of apps installed (and often hundreds), even if they only use a few on a regular basis, and shockingly, most users have no idea just how much information those apps are collecting about them.<\/p>\n<p>However much you imagine, the answer is probably &#8220;more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This point was driven home painfully, courtesy of a recent discovery by a team of researchers at the Kromtech Security Center. They found completely insecure database online, a staggering 577GB in size, owned by an Israeli-based startup called AI.type, makers of a virtual keyboard app bearing the same name.<\/p>\n<p>The information it contained is simply mind boggling.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does it contain personal information on 31 million of the app&#8217;s 40 million users, but the database contents reveal just how intrusive AI.type actually is. The data includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each user&#8217;s full name, email address and phone number<\/li>\n<li>What OS version the user is using (AI.type is only available to Android users)<\/li>\n<li>Each user&#8217;s nation of residence, mobile network name and what languages each user has enabled<\/li>\n<li>IP and GPS location data<\/li>\n<li>All information included with each user&#8217;s social media profiles, including birthdays, photos, posts, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Each user&#8217;s device name, the make and model of their smartphone and screen resolution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As If that wasn&#8217;t enough, the research team also discovered that each user&#8217;s contact list had been scraped (including names, email addresses and phone numbers), and that the company was tracking a whole range of internet behaviors, including Google search queries, number of messages sent per day, the average length of those messages and more.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, there&#8217;s no reason that a simple keyboard app needs this level of information on its users. The only possible explanation is that it&#8217;s being collected for resale. If you use the app, be aware that the company knows almost everything about you and everyone you&#8217;ve been in contact with on your phone, and now, so do a lot of other people who don&#8217;t have your best interests at heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many apps do you have on your smartphone? Do you know how much data they&#8217;re collecting about you? 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