"Education App Reveals Users' Sensitive Information, Research Finds"

Security researchers found that 8Belts, maker of language-learning apps, left a database containing sensitive information about hundreds of thousands of users exposed online. The unsecured 8Belts database, which has now been taken down, revealed national identity numbers, names, email addresses, and phone numbers belonging to customers worldwide. 8Belts' major clients include Huawei, Decathlon, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Security professionals have stressed the lack of expertise among organizations regarding the secure movement of customer information into the cloud despite cloud providers' efforts to increase the ease with which databases can be set up securely. This article continues to discuss the discovery of the poorly secured 8Belts database, what information was exposed by the database, which companies were impacted by this leak, other unsecured databases that were uncovered this year, and the continued problems with securely moving customer information into the cloud. 

CNET reports "Education App Reveals Users' Sensitive Information, Research Finds"