Another week, another potentially serious data breach. The emails, phone numbers, and locations of 31 million users of Android keyboard app Ai.type have been compromised after the developer failed to secure the server on which the information was stored. Some 577 gigabytes of data is said to have been exposed, representing more than three quarters of the app's total userbase.
The app's founder, Eitan Fitusi, made the rather basic error of not protecting the MongoDB database with a password, leaving it vulnerable.
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