Recently, Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, analysts at vpnMentor have discovered a data breach that exposed the user data of Conor Solutions, a South African mobile technology company.
This gave the public access to “daily logs of user activity by customers of ISPs using web filtering software built by Conor” exposing their internet traffic in the process as well.
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Naturally, this included sensitive information including one’s browsing history. The latter ended up embarrassing a lot of users. Moreover, the company boasts over 80 million users of its products and notable clients such as Vodafone increasing the severity of the breach.
According to the official report released by vpnMentor, they first discovered the company’s database on 12 November. What makes this incident come to our notice now can be attributed to the lack of identification associated with the database once it was discovered.
Soon, however, a connection was discovered to a web filter app built by Conor and thereby they were informed of the issue.
As common with data breaches, this particular database was also unencrypted and without any authentication measures in place. This makes us question how oblivious the cybersecurity team of such a large firm can be.
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