Security researchers at the Kromtech Security Center accept discovered a massive information breach that could comport on over 31 1000000 customers of a pop virtual keyboard app, Ai.type later an opened upwards database was constitute online.
The breached database MongoDB is believed to belong to Ai.Type a Tel Aviv-based startup that offers a personalized keyboard for phones too tablets supporting Android too equally iOS devices.
The app has to a greater extent than than twoscore 1000000 users across the world.
According to the researchers, the database appears to comprise records of alone the Android users, which include users names, weep upwards numbers, locations too Google queries.
The caput of the app fellowship admitted the breach, only compromised information was non sensitive.
Bob Diachenko, from the Kromtech Security Centre, said: "Why would a keyboard too emoji application remove to get together the entire information of the user's weep upwards or tablet?"
"Based on the leaked database, they seem to collect everything from contacts to keystrokes," he wrote inward his report.
However, Eitan Fitusi, principal executive too founder of Ai.type, said to the BBC, "It was a secondary database."
He farther added that the geo-location information was non accurate, too no IMEI information (a model seat out for a specific phone) had been gathered yesteryear the hackers.
The database has straight off been nigh down
