In August 2018, John McAfee boasted about the Bitfi crypto wallet app being “unhackable” and it didn’t take hackers much to hack the wallet app twice forcing the company to remove the “unhackable” tag.
Now, a Cloud backup provider has leaked a treasure trove of customer data while claiming to be “The World’s Most Secure Online Backup” service provider. – Oh, the irony.
Going by the name of SOS Online Backup; the secure cloud-based backup provider is based in El Segundo, California with data centers in every continent of the world which indicates what type of industry giant the company is.
However, according to a team of researchers from vpnMentor, SOS Online Backup has exposed personal records of over 135 million customers online.
SOS Online Backup claiming to be “The World’s Most Secure Online Backup” service provider:
SOS Online Backup’s homepage
In total, the researchers identified around 70GB worth of data belonging to the company’s user accounts. This included:
Full namesUsernamesPhone numbersEmail addressesInternal company details (corporate customers)
The exposed database contained over 135 million records, totaling almost 70GB of metadata related to user accounts on SOS Online Backup. This included structural, reference, descriptive, and administrative metadata covering many aspects of SOS Online Backup’s cloud services, wrote vpnMentor’s in a blog post.
The worrisome part of this incident, other than the data leak, is the attitude of SOS Online Backup. For instance, vpnMentor’s research team discovered the database in November ..
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