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Lack of developer attention to cloud security prompts alerts
The personal data of over 100 million Android users may have been put at risk through a variety of cloud service misconfigurations
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The discovery of 23 leaky Android applications by Check Point Research (CPR) – which may, collectively, have put the personal data of more than 100 million users at risk – has prompted fresh warnings, and reminders, over how critical it is for software developers to keep on top of potential security slip-ups.
Check Point said it found publicly available, sensitive data from real-time databases in 13 Android apps, with between 10,000 and 10 million downloads apiece, and push notification and cloud storage keys embedded in many of the apps themselves. The vulnerable apps included apps for astrology, taxis, logo-making, screen recording and faxing, and the exposed data included emails, chat messages, location metadata