A bug in the Ring Neighbors app exposed the precise location data and home addresses of users who posted on the neighborhood watch platform.
Public user posts on Neighbors are anonymized, but a security lapse in the app may have allowed attackers to retrieve sensitive user information that isn t normally accessible, a new report by
TechCrunch claims.
While posts on Neighbors incorporate video footage from Ring products, they don t include publicly viewable names or location data. However, the flaw caused certain data like a user s latitude, longitude, and home address to become extractable from Ring s servers including data from the posts of users who had reported crimes.
A bug in the Ring Neighbors app exposed the precise location data and home addresses of users who posted on the neighborhood watch platform.
Credit: Ring
Public user posts on Neighbors are anonymized, but a security lapse in the app may have allowed attackers to retrieve sensitive user information that isn t normally accessible, a new report by
TechCrunch claims.
While posts on Neighbors incorporate video footage from Ring products, they don t include publicly viewable names or location data. However, the flaw caused certain data like a user s latitude, longitude, and home address to become extractable from Ring s servers including data from the posts of users who had reported crimes.