Family tracking app Family Locator has tracked the real - time data of more than 238,000 users after Australian company React Apps left a server exposed . The database was taken offline after Microsoft , which hosted the data on the Azure cloud , was told of the problem and asked to contact the developer , which has not yet fixed the problem . Sanyam Jain, a security researcher and a member of the GDI Foundation, found the database and reported the findings to TechCrunch. The database , which was left exposed without a server for several weeks , was accessed by security expert and GDI Foundation founder Sanyam Jain .
Family tracking app Family Locator has tracked the real - time data of more than 238,000 users after Australian company React Apps left a server exposed . The database was taken offline after Microsoft , which hosted the data on the Azure cloud , was told of the problem and asked to contact the developer , which has not yet fixed the problem . The database , which was left exposed without a server for several weeks , was accessed by security expert and GDI Foundation founder Sanyam Jain .