"100M Android Users Hit By Rampant Cloud Leaks"

Researchers at Check Point Research found several mobile apps, some with 10 million downloads, have opened up users' personal data to the public internet, and most aren't fixed.  More than 100 million Android users are at risk after 23 different mobile apps were found to leak personal data in the wake of rampant cloud misconfigurations.  Anyone with internet access could access information including emails, chat messages, location data, passwords, photos, personal data, and more. Worryingly, the researcher stated that only "a few" of the apps had changed their settings after being contacted by the firm to make the information private.  The researchers also found push-notification and cloud-storage keys embedded in a number of Android applications, which put developers' own internal resources, such as access to update mechanisms, storage, and more, at risk.

Threatpost reports: "100M Android Users Hit By Rampant Cloud Leaks"