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Tuesday 10 March 2020

Anonymous secret sharing app Whisper left sensitive profile data exposed for years

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Whisper, an anonymous secret-sharing mobile app that rose to prominence more than half a decade ago, has been inadvertently exposing sensitive information about its users for years through a public online database, according to a new report from The Washington Post.

The app, while far from as popular as it was in the few years after its release in 2012, is still used by more than 30 million people a month, some of whom are under the age of 18 and share confessions about teenage sexual encounters and information related to sexual orientation. According to The Post, which was actively able to query the database in real time before Whisper took it down, a search for users who listed themselves as 15 years of age returned as many as 1.3...

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from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/10/21173945/whisper-app-database-exposed-leak-private-info-anonymous-secret-sharing
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