Twitter warned its users that a software development kit (SDK) developed by oneAudience could have allowed that company to obtain account information.
Facebook also posted a notice concerning not only the oneAudience SDK, but also for fellow SDK maker Mobiburn.
OneAudience confirmed the problem and then shut down the SDK along with its associated websites but said the data was never intended to be collected, never added to its database and never used.
“Recently, we were advised that personal information from hundreds of mobile IDs may have been passed to our oneAudience platform. This data was never intended to be collected, never added to our database and never used,” oneAudience said in a statement.
OneAudience’s stated goal was to “help developers earn new revenue by enhancing app user information into the audience insights advertisers crave.”
In a statement Twitter, which described the SDK as “malicious”, said the issue was not within its software, but resulted from a lack of isolation between SDKs within an application. The SDK itself is normally embed ..
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