Five percent of the databases are vulnerable to threat actors: It’s a gold mine of exploit opportunity in thousands of mobile apps, researchers say. Thousands of mobile apps – some of which have been ...

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Mobile applications with tens of millions of downloads are leaking sensitive user data due to the misconfiguration of back-end cloud databases, according to Check Point. The security vendor’s ...

Thanks to poorly secured backend databases, a few thousand mobile apps are leaking an abundance of sensitive data, including personal health information, plaintext passwords, and financial ...

Exposed data discovered by Check Point Research included chat messages in gaming apps, personal photos, token IDs in healthcare apps and data from cryptocurrency platforms. Image: Getty ...

The opening — which also includes 2.6 million plaintext passwords and user IDs, 25 million GPS location records, and 50,000 financial records — is a result of app developers neglecting to secure their ...