Spyware Company Exposed ‘281 Gigabytes’ of Children’s Photos Online

guest · Sep 1, 2018

Spyware Company Exposed ‘281 Gigabytes’ of Children’s Photos Online
Consumer spyware company Family Orbit confirmed that it left its cloud storage servers vulnerable to hackers.
August 30, 2018
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywk8gy/spyware-family-orbit-children-photos-data-breach

A company that sells spyware to parents left the pictures of hundreds of monitored children online, only protected by a password that almost anyone could find, according to a hacker.

[...] Family Orbit, a company that that markets itself as “the best parental control app to protect your kids.” The servers contained the photos intercepted by the spyware, according to the hacker. The company confirmed the breach to Motherboard.

The company left exposed 3,836 containers on Rackspace with 281 gigabytes of pictures and videos, the hacker said. The hacker shared screenshots showing he had access to the folders.

A representative of Family Orbit confirmed to Motherboard that the API key is stored encrypted in the app, and that the company observed “unusual bandwidth” used in their cloud storage.
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