Thousands of families using the Peekaboo Moments app may have been affected.
Data breaches are the new normal and mostly center around personal data of adults being exposed. Perhaps, it is their payment information or other confidential info such as one’s password. However, just recently, we’ve come across something shocking.
An app by the name of “Peekaboo Moments” known for storing photos and videos of millions of babies worldwide has been found exposing its Elasticsearch database hosted on Alibaba Cloud.
The severity of the breach can be determined by the fact that the exposed database contains more than 70 million log files dating from March 2019. These files also include email addresses, location & device data.
See: Cybercriminals Selling Social Security Numbers of Infants on Dark Web
An example of a record from the exposed database:
Dan Ehrlich from Twelve Security who discovered this breach has estimated a minimum of 800,000 email addresses to be part of the database. As Sarah Coble from Infosecurity Magazine reports, although the app had the purpose of enabling parents to record key milestones for their babies such as their length and weight, now ironically, they will also be able to record “their baby’s first-ever data breach. ..
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