An iOS application that parents can use to monitor children activity on Apple devices has exposed Apple ID passwords in plaintext due to the data stored on an unprotected server.
A report from ZDNet reveals that TeenSafe, an app whose purpose is to offer, ironically, secure teen monitoring, including messages, location, call and web browsing activity, stored passwords in plaintext on a server hosted on Amazon Web Services.
While the company claims it has 1 million parents using its service, at least 10,200 records were said to be stored on the exposed server. The information that was available without a password included parents’ and teens’ email addresses, as well as the passwords for the latter.
What’s more concerning is that TeenSafe, despite handling so critical information, required parents to disable two-factor authentication for the Apple IDs that they wante… (read more)
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